Evensong

Song Evensong
Artist The Innocence Mission
Album Umbrella

Lyrics

[00:00.32] Evensong
[00:23.13] The day is over.
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[00:27.02] And still so heavy on the mind:
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[00:31.96] in flew glowing, smiling Mother, butterfly
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[00:39.78] in yellow
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[00:42.97] to join the frowning cactus crowd.
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[00:48.02] Finding flowers - even there - to flutter round.
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[00:57.32] I thought, Isn't Mother grand?
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[01:01.02] The way she flies and flies
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[01:04.11] into the sting of the cold
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[01:06.93] and the prick of the barbed wire.
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[01:13.25] Isn't mother grand
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[01:15.76] to gladly fly and swiftly fly
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[01:20.35] into the sting of the cold
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[01:23.09] and the prick of the barbed wire.
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[01:42.76] The day is over
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[01:46.53] And still goes passing through the mind:
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[01:51.60] in came glowing, smiling Mother, sure and kind.
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[01:59.29] To rouse us
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[02:02.35] to give ourselves out and to cry.
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[02:07.50] Birth to warm intentions, worthless otherwise!
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[02:16.73] Oh, the lives that brush against us,
[02:20.76] pass us by and by,
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[02:23.70] the friends who may or may not come
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[02:28.50] if we would first invite.
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[02:32.86] Oh to open doors,
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[02:35.27] to always gladly fly and fly
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[02:39.83] into the sting of the cold
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[02:42.51] and the prick of the barded wire
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