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'Cause I know that time has numbered my days

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And I'll go along with everything you say

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But I'll ride home laughing, look at me now

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The walls of my town, they come crumbling down

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And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons

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And I know their choices color all I've done

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But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son,

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I ain't ever lived a year better spent in love

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'Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice

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And I'll believe in grace and choice

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And I know perhaps my heart is farce,

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But I'll be born without a mask        woo

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Like the city that nurtured my greed and my pride,

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I stretched my arms into the sky

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I cry Babel! Babel! Look at me now

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Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down

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You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl,

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As all we see will slip into the cloud

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So come down from your mountain and stand where we've been,

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You know our breath is weak and our body thin

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Press my nose up, to the glass around your heart

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I should've known I was weaker from the start,

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You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part

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To tear, tear them down,

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Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down

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'Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice

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And I'll believe in grace and choice

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And I know perhaps my heart is farce,

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But I'll be born without a mask        woo