I knew a plant
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Whose roots were bound
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And returned
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Into the ground
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Every day
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I watched it grow
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Every day
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It struggled so
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Roots were bound roots were bound
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Roots were bound into the ground
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Watched it grow watched it grow
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Watched it as it struggled so
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I dug it up
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I cut the twine
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And so like this
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I made it mine
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I watched it drink
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And watched it feed
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And grow beyond
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It's simple need
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Cut the twine cut the twine
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Cut the twine and made it mine
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Watched it feed watched it feed
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Watched it feed the simple need
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Unbound roots unbound
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Unbound into the ground
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Unbound roots unbound
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Unbound into the ground
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I was once
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Bound at the root
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Confined with twine
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Both mind and foot
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I cut it loose
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And now am free
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As anything
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Alive can be
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At the root bound at the root
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Confined both mind and foot
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Am free now am free
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As anything alive can be
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Unbound roots unbound
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Unbound into the ground
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Unbound roots unbound
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Unbound into the ground
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Unbound
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| Suzanne Vega |
