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[Music by Adam Cook; Lyrics by R. Michael Cook] |
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"'Oh, dear! I can't understand that," said the princess. |
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'I dare say not. I didn't expect you would. |
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But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.'" |
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[- George Macdonald, The Princess and the Goblin] |
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Let me pass, let me pass. |
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I am hungry for sweeter grass. |
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Let me pass, let me pass. |
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Soon the first shall be the last. |
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The shadows on the wall |
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are not enough for me. |
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I want the light behind |
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all the shadowed shapes. |
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I shall soon graze in greener fields |
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of grasses that whither not nor yield. |
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My final prayer is a feeble bleat; |
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the left path is never free. |
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Let me pass, let me pass. |
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Soon the first shall be the last. |