Darkness settles on the ground
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And leaves the day stumbling blind,
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Coming to a quiet close
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And maybe just in time:
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We'd almost lost the heart to know
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How to keep our best in mind,
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We'd almost lost the heart to know
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How to keep our best in mind.
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Time has turned an angry face
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And throws a dark eye back to see
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That what will pass for mercy now
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We'll practice unforgivingly.
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As if might and will made right
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Or either one could make us free,
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As if might and will made right
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Or either one could make us free.
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Lovers laugh and cross this way
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Weaving out into the street,
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It seems we never were so young
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Or it was never quite so sweet.
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But the world is always beautiful
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When it's seen in full retreat,
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The worst of life looks beautiful
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As it slips away in full retreat.
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God only knows that we can do
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No more or less than HeˇŻll allow,
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God only knows that we mean well
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God knows that we just don't know how.
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But I'll try to be your light in love
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And pray that is enough for now,
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I'll try to be your light in love
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And pray that is enough for now.
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God Only Knows
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| Bonnie Raitt |
