Time slips by in the hourglass
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You can hear your name
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Sand slides through the stranger's hand
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As he deals the game
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All the candles are burning low
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No more cradles and no more snow
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Bet your life on a lucky roll
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Play your queen, you could win your soul
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Stakes are high you can live or die
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To risk everything
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In your goblet the wine is black
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As a moonless night
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Wet your lips before you kiss
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The blazing light
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Bets are off but the game is on
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Drop the armor you counted on
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All your armies are fled and gone
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Win your king, you can play your pawn
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Take your time, you have just begun
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To risk everything
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Catch your tears in a golden sieve
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Don't regret what you did to live
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Don't forget that you must forgive
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To risk everything
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Through the window you see the storm
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That is gathering
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Painted gypsies on dappled horses
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Are galloping
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Through the trees in the howling wind
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Down the hills to the river bend
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Shadow ghosts that are blind as night
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Shrieking curses against the night
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Daring you to come join their flight
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And risk everything
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Catch your tears in a golden sieve
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Don't regret what you did to live
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Don't forget that you must forgive
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To risk everything
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There is nothing to hold you now
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To your fault or mine
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Fallen idols and martyred souls
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Are the only kind
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Feet of clay in the emerald skies
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Birds of prey when the dreamer dies
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Perfect crosses perfect your lies
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Burning saints in the flaming skies
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Bet your life every promise dies
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All that's left for you to try is risking everything
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Catch your tears in a golden sieve
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Don't regret what you did to live
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Don't forget that you must forgive
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To risk everything
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Catch your tears in a golden sieve
|
Don't regret what you did to live
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Don't forget that you must forgive
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To risk everything
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Time slips by in the hourglass
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You can hear your name
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Sand slides through the stranger's hand
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As he deals the game
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All the candles are burning low
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No more cradles and no more snow
|
Bet your life on a lucky roll
|
Play your queen, you could win your soul
|
|
Stakes are high you can live or die
|
To risk everything
|
|
Catch your tears in a golden sieve
|
Don't regret what you did to live
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Don't forget that you must forgive
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To risk everything
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Risk
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| Judy Collins |
