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It is an early Monday morning.
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The sun is becoming bright on the land.
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No one is watching as he comes a walking.
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Two bulky suitcases hang from his hands.
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He heads towards the tower that stands in the campus.
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He goes through the door, he starts up the stairs.
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The sound of his footsteps, the sound of his breathing,
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The sound of the silence when no one was there.
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I didn't really know him.
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He was kind of strange.
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Always sort of sat there.
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He never seemed to change.
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He reached the catwalk. He put done his burden.
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The four sided clock began to chime.
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Seven AM, the day is beginning.
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So much to do and so little time.
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He looks at the city where no one had known him.
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He looks at the sky where no one looks down.
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He looks at his life and what it has shown him.
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He looks for his shadow it cannot be found.
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He was such a moody child, very hard to touch.
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Even as a baby he never smiled too much. No no.No no.
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You bug me, she said.
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Your ugly, she said.
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Please hug me, I said.
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But she just sat there
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With the same flat stare
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That she saves for me alone
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When I'm home.
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When I'm home.
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Take me home.
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He laid out the rifles, he loaded the shotgun,
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He stacked up the cartridges along the wall.
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He knew he would need them for his conversation.
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If it went as it he planned, then he might use them all.
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He said Listen you people I've got a question
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You won't pay attention but I'll ask anyhow.
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I found a way that will get me an answer.
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Been waiting to ask you 'till now.
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Right now !
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Am I ?
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I am a lover whose never been kissed.
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Am I ?
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I am a fighter whose not made a fist.
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Am I ?
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If I'm alive then there's so much I've missed.
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How do I know I exist ?
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Are you listening to me ?
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Are you listening to me ?
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Am I ?
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The first words he spoke took the town by surprise.
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One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye.
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It blew her through the window wedged her against the door.
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Reality poured from her face, staining the floor.
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He was kind of creepy,
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Sort of a dunce.
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I met him at the corner bar.
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I only dated the poor boy once,
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That's all. Just once, that was all.
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Bill Whedon was questioned as stepped from his car.
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Tom Scott ran across the street but he never got that far.
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The police were there in minutes, they set up baricades.
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He spoke right on over them in a half-mile circle.
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In a dumb struck city his pointed questions were sprayed.
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He knocked over Danny Tyson as he ran towards the noise.
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Just about then the answers started comming. Sweet, sweet joy.
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Thudding in the clock face, whining off the walls,
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Reaching up to where he sat there, answering calls.
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Thirty-seven people got his message so far.
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Yes, he was reaching them right were they are.
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They set up an assault team. They asked for volunteers.
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They had to go and get him, that much was clear.
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And the word spread about him on the radios and TV's.
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In appropriately sober tone they asked "Who can it be ?"
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He was a very dull boy, very taciturn.
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Not much of a joiner, he did not want to learn.
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No no.No no.
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They're coming to get me, they don't want to let me
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Stay in the bright light too long.
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It's getting on noon now, it's goin to be soon now.
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But oh, what a wonderful sound !
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Mama, won't you nurse me ?
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Rain me down the sweet milk of your kindness.
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Mama, it's getting worse for me.
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Won't you please make me warm and mindless ?
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Mama, yes you have cursed me.
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I never will forgive you for your blindness.
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I hate you!
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The wires are all humming for me.
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And I can hear them coming for me.
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Soon they'll be here, but there's nothing to fear.
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Not any more though they've blasted the door.
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As the copter dropped the gas he shouted " Who cares ?" .
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They could hear him laughing as they started up the stairs.
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As they stormed out on the catwalk, blinking at the sun,
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With their final fusillade his answer had come.
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Am I ?
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There is no way that you can hide me.
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Am I ?
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Though you have put your fire inside me.
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Am I ?
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You've given me my answer can't you see ?
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I was !
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I am !
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and now I Will Be
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I WILL BE !!!
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