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you may have seen the thread of silver on the window in the bathroom |
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that was thicker than the thread your heart was hanging from |
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you may have seen the lid of darkness clamping down upon a sunset |
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no less tightly than your heart was beating strong |
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in the bigger picture, there's a thread thirteen times thinner |
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in the bigger picture, there's a lid fourteen times tighter |
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in the bigger picture, there's a night fifteen times darker |
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and it'll hold you like no other, in the bigger picture... |
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you may have seen the first star flickering in the park one summer evening |
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no less faintly than the dream your heart was wishing on |
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you may have seen the seagull circling on the haze above the factory |
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with more purpose than the course your life was on |
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but if you haven't seen the places you have come from |
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then you haven't seen how far you have come |
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in the bigger picture, there's a star sixteen times fainter |
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in the bigger picture, there's a course seventeen times straighter |
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in the bigger picture, there's a dream eighteen times greater |
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and it'll steer you like no other, in the bigger picture... |
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you may have seen the blazing bonfire burning bright in fickle beauty |
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that was turned to lifeless ashes in the morning |
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you may have seen the single snowdrop where it shivered in the graveyard |
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no less fragile than the soul to which you cling |
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but if you haven't seen the people you have come from |
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then you haven't seen the person you've become |
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in the bigger picture, there's no answer to your prayers |
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(in the bigger picture) but there's a billion other fires |
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in the bigger picture, you'll learn how to build yours higher |
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when you've seen the savage wonder in the bigger picture... |
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in the bigger picture, there's a sea breeze three times fresher |
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and it'll make your two eyes water, in the bigger picture... |