The picture is far too big to look at kid. Your eyes won't open wide enough
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and you're constantly surrounded by that swirling stream of what is and what was.
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Well, we've all made our predictions but the truth still isn't out.
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But if you wanna see the future, go stare into a cloud.
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And keep trying to find your way out of that maze of memories.
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It all sort of looks familiar, until you get up close and then it's different. clearly.
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But each time you turn a corner, you're, you're right back where you were
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and your only hope is that forgetting might make a door appear.
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Well is it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak?
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An avalanche of opinions like the one that fell that I am now underneath.
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It was my voice that moved the first rock and I would do it all again.
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So, I mean, it's cool if you keep quiet, but I like singing.
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So I'll be holding my note and stomping and strumming and feeling so very lucky.
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There is nothing I know except this lifetime's one moment
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and wishing will just leave me empty.
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So you can try and live in darkness but you'll never shake the light.
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It will greet you every morning
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and it will make you more aware with it's absence at night,
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when you're wrapped up in your blankets baby, that comfortable cocoon.
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But I have seen the day of your awakening boy and it's coming soon.
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So go ahead and loose yourself in liquor and you can praise the clouded mind
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but it isn't what you're thinking no, it's the course of history, your position in line.
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You're just a piece of the puzzle so I think you'd better find your place.
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And don't go blaming your knowledge on some fruit you ate.
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Cause there's been a great deal of discussion, yes, about the properties of man.
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Animal or angel? You were carved from bone, but your heart it's just sand.
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And the wind is going to scatter it and cover everything with love.
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So if it makes you happy, then keep kneeling Mama, but I'm standing up.
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Because this veil, it has been lifted. Yes, my eyes are wet with clarity.
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I've been a witness to such wonders. Oh, I've searched for them all across this country
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but I think I'll be returning now to the town where I was born.
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And I understand you must keep moving friend, but I'm heading home.
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Yeah I'm gonna follow the road and let the scenery sweeping by easily enter my body.
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And I'll send you all this message in code, under ground, over mountains,
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through forests, and deserts and cities.
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All across the electric wire, it's a baited line. The hook's in deep boys,
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there's no more time. So you can struggle in the water be too stubborn to die,
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or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.
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The Big Picture
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| Bright Eyes |
