Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission
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To spill the blood, to pull the weed
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You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum
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With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be
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Can we bring it together,
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Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?
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Can we make it better,
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Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?
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I kicked up the dirt, and I said to my neighbor
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"We keep making it worse, we keep getting it wrong"
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He tucked in his shirt, he stood a little bit straighter,
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He said "We need a few less words dear, we need a few more guns."
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But will it bring us together,
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Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?
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Can we make it better,
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Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?
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Enduring love
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Why so much and so strong, beyond this short existence?
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So don't be still
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You say there's a long line behind you
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And it's hardly worth the mentioning
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But I will
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Cause we may flicker and fade,
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But we never will be through with this
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I see this world battered but not broken
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There's a fallow heart, it's waiting on a sowing hand
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You can grow what you want, But one day it's gonna rise up
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So plant what you need to make a better stand
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And we'll bring it together
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And we'll call from the mountain to the valley below.
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And we'll make it better
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Let go of the hawk, we let go of the dove.
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I sing to you, all you true believers
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With the strength to see this and not be still.
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I'm telling you now, find the hope that feeds you,
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Tether
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Indigo Girls |