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A delicate wind graces my hair - |
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A shiver from the silent fear |
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One last breath for bravery... |
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Crystals of salt and sand inhaled as I embark on this journey. |
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This changes everything - |
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A whole new life, a whole new world! |
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Let's sail beyond the horizon - |
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There is so much more! |
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Let's begin... |
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I worked as I was told to |
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Catalogued the days |
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Certified events here |
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Permits and deeds they all came from me |
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I lived as I was told to |
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Counting off the days |
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Paid my bills on time here |
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Dared not to dream too much in my sleep |
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In my life |
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Never someone like her to understand me - |
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no hero to take her away from this place |
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She loved me as best she could and did not ask me why |
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I buried her and quietly filed her away |
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I did what I was told to |
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Heeded all the rules |
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Fell in line in place here |
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Watched what I said with nothing to say |
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I felt what I was told to |
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Turned the other way |
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Swallowed all my years here |
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Smiled through the days as my life slipped away |
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All my life |
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Never caring to see what's beyond me... |
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My heart is buried deep in the stone of this land |
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My daughter took good care and did not ask me why |
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She's with me now, to quietly sail me away |
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What is life? |
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Was I living a life of illusion? |
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With pencil and stamp I marked the lives lived before me |
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Old waters and mountains are new in this dying man's eyes |
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My daughter's in my heart and she will show me the way |
