Listen to the tales and romanticize,
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How we'd follow the path of the hero.
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Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.
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How we rise to the height of our halo.
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Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
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Our way into the arms of the savior,
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Feigning all the trials and the tribulations;
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None of us have actually been there.
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Not like you.
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Ignorant siblings in the congregation
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Gather around spewing sympathy,
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Spare me.
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None of them can even hold a candle up to you.
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Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see.
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But, enough about the collective Judas.
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Who could deny you were the one who
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Illuminated your little piece of the divine?
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And this little light of mine, a gift you passed on to me;
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I'm gonna let it shine to guide you safely on your way,
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Your way home ...
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Oh, what are they going to do when the lights go down
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Without you to guide them all to Zion?
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What are they going to do when the rivers overrun
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Other than tremble incessantly?
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High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground.
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You were the light and the way they'll only read about.
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I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out.
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Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough;
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You're going home.
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You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
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Shake your fists at the gates saying:
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"I've come home now!
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Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father.
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Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
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It's time now!
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My time now!
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Give me my, give me my wings!"
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You are the light and way that they will only read about.
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Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance,
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(With the) burden of proof tossed upon the believers.
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You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
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Judith Marie, unconditional one.
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Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescents.
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Difficult to see you in this light.
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Please forgive this bold suggestion, but
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Should you see your Maker's face tonight,
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Look Him in the eye, look Him in the eye, and tell Him:
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"I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
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Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home."
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10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)
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