We used to get up at sunrise
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And lived a thousand years
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Until one of us stole
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Fire is a flickering light.
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Then some of us began to pray,
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Others sharpen fangs,
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But we all drank from the Blue River.
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And then time flowed through my fingers,
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By winter, the river became shallow.
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And the one who always lived here began to blame
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Came from afar.
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Some had daughters growing up
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Other sons
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But we all drank from the same stream.
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We imprisoned each other in fortresses,
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Bridges were set on fire.
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Above this city is a star with a crescent,
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Above that - on the tops of the crosses.
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Above one window - the song of the oriole,
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Above the other is the clatter of crows,
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But we all drank from the same stream.
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One retired from the world to the mountains
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To the sources of Yin and Yang.
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Another was sitting in a smoky tearoom
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And just smoked a hookah.
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One wife is wearing a white dress,
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The one in black is nobody's wife,
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But we all drank from the same stream.
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One rose higher and higher,
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Another damaged the wing.
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In some fields, ears of corn were pouring,
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Nothing grew on others.
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One was dying, overtaken by a bullet,
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The other one fired a gun,
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But we all drank from the same stream.
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And having taken a sip - who is wine, who is potion,
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Who is remembering the father, who is the mother,
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One decides it's time to build
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The other is that it's time to blow up.
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But every midnight the Seated
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At the mill of fates, their dispute is resolved:
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He tells who to go on patrol. |