love is trembling
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trembling like the little bird we hold within our hands
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love is bending
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bending towards the worried brow
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here, let me wipe away your tears
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love is kneeling
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above the broken body
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the ever-upturned face
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love is missing
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all the words are broken, help me
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I cannot find my way
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no, I can't
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I need you love
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come on love
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will you sail 'cross the water
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and lay your wisdom down?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and tell us what you found?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and hold us when we drown?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water?
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is anybody listening...?
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love is trembling
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trembling like the leaves above the baby's bed
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love is streaming
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streaming with the tears that we cannot seem to shed
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love is frozen
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frozen in the figure they just pulled from the subway grate
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love is burning
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burning with the anger that we all feel
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against which we kneel,
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our faces pressed into the lap of loneliness
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come on love
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will you sail 'cross the water
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and lay your wisdom down?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and tell us what you found?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and hold us when we drown?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water?
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are we not willing? are we not trying?
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are we not trusting? are we not crying?
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are we not children? are we not stumbling?
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are we not wondering? are we not?
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will you sail 'cross the water
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and lay your wisdom down?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and tell us what you found?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water
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and hold us when we drown?
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and love will you sail 'cross the water?
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are we not willing? are we not bending?
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are we not frozen? are we not trembling?
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are we not children? are we not trying?
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are we not wondering? are we not?
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love is trembling...
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Sail Across The Water
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| Jane Siberry |
