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once when I was thirty-one |
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I woke in the dead of night |
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and heard the vastness of the snowfall outside |
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slipped downstairs in my bare feet |
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soon forgotten freezing |
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and pour a milk glass full |
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to wait out the tide |
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been a decade and one |
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been a decade and one my friends |
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a decade and one |
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since I |
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as the white went down |
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I thought of the child upstairs |
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I thought of the God upstairs |
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that I couldn't believe |
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I thought of the chosen man |
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asleep on his side of the bed |
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how green becomes wood |
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in a family tree |
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been a decade and one |
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been a decade and one so soon |
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a decade and one |
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since I stood |
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so proud |
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and so unsure |
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ebony glowing by the window there |
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as always |
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fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly |
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cool ivory returned in kind |
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I thought of anger and adulation |
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and the taste of dreams realized |
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and the waste dreams realized leave behind |
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a decade and one |
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a decade and one |
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I said out loud |
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a decade and one |
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and I am here |
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and I am here still standing |
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