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Is that water in your eyes? |
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Is it sand in your eyes? |
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Is it wind in your eyes, |
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Or my footprints in their stride? |
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I saw the rain falling from my sister |
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I saw my mother with pools in her eyes |
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I saw my lover and the sorrows I've caused her |
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Flowing like a river from somewhere inside |
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It's a well-worn path, yet each step I find |
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So starkly defined in its misstepped way |
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Each footstep I've taken, so sadly mistaken |
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Has tread a harrowed path of pain |
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Deep in the forest, so deep in these sorrows |
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I'm lost and afraid but the darkness won't part |
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O mother earth, o sister earth |
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Sweet lover earth, I've blackened your heart |
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Each footprint I've made, both bloody and tainted |
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Has thoroughly weighed like Hell's debt on thee |
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The greatest sin of all my grave sins: |
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You've walked this path just to be beside me |
