Time

The Sun begins it's daily stoll
As all over clocks do chime
Call to worship, to join, condole
Marking hour and time

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All over clocks do chime
Enough to make a long day whole
Marking the hours and time
And leaving a heavy toll
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Enough to make a long day whole
Dealing with crime and grime
Leaving behind a heavy toll
Go home and clean off the slime
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Dealing with crime and grime
While passing by worshippers, offering to condole
Go home and remove the slime
As the Sun retreats into its hole
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Forgiven

I'm not sure how much longer we two can wander
Two hearts, two souls bound halfway the world around
Not yet able or ready to be, if only we could foresee
The bumps in the pathway, the call at the end of the day
Balanced by goodness, purity and light, Knowing in our hearts what's wrong and what's right
These thing we sustain have grown weak, causing pain
Two things can be done to heal two hearts already won
The answers are easy, already written,
Drawn together, spoken, forgiven

Duty

Duty is not the dull word it seems in your mouth
It is a joyful thing, full of patient love and caring
Knowing what is right and making sure that the goal is achieved
Taking care of those who cannot take of themselves
Loving without thought of reward or reciprocation
Thinking of others above yourself
We share a duty to each other
Let us make a joyful duty

Many Sides

You are the best part of me, my finest side by far
I give you all that's left within me
Bound to your heart, I give mine willingly
No room for handwringing, no cause to chide
So gather around and sit a bit, abide
While I find the church, a priest, a key
For you are the better part of me
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You are my finest side by far, for you show me the best of me
It blazes like a bright white star
A light so bright and carefree
It makes me floats on wings so feathery
And although it illuminates my many scars
You are my finest side by far
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No Baggage

Follow me to the ends of this earth
I guarantee you, things couldn't get worse
This whole world is filled with terror and pain
But my only thought is to see you again
Together we'll open people's eyes with mirth
We'll fill our home with love and birth
And as children and laughter spill down the lane
No longer will the world deign on our little reign

Pawn

I have been your pawn
Your willing slave
Have I done your bidding well enough?
Followed your rules?
Toed the line?
Still you say it's not enough
You have emptied me
Taken the best
Left me nothing
But a broken shell
Perhaps someone else
Will come across me
And fill me
And make me
Whole again

DFGGF

I will never be your better-half
Can't you see it now
The two of us trying to reason
Why wherefore and how
And when was the last time we even laughed
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No matter what the season
We seem to beat the odds
Constantly fighting each other
Mistaking ourselves for god's
Losing our cohesion
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What once bound us strong
Is now tearing us asunder
What is this important key
Is there a desk it's hid under?
Would trying to find it be wrong
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Stars say together we together should be
But reality rips them to shreds
Perhaps our love was just a gaff
For if we cannot get long in our heads, How can our hearts be destined to be? ____________________________________

Roses

Smell of roses drift through the air
I remember the ones you sent before
There won't be any this year
As sad music plays in my ear
It's hard to know that you've gone
That were miles apart tonight
Sitting alone in my car
Feeling lonely, distant, ajar
The words were too hard to say
We needed to work on us
Commitment was asking too much
In step but out of touch

For Good

When you're not here my world despairs
Although you're in my head
Time moves quickly
Then slows again
Without you everything spins
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The times when you're here we move in sync
But away you're out of step
We fall together
Then fall apart
It's hard to begin again
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This world is hard when we're alone
And harder day by day
You come home
Then leave again
One day you'll be home for good
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Charm To Rejoin & Tear Asunder

Bring together what was stretched too far
     Whether by train or plane or car
Give strength and knowledge to get the job done
     The first step is over but the game's just begun
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Send knowledge of future, of justice, outcome
     To the one who left tasks empty and undone
Will power is needed and a strong steady friend
      To help them acknowledge that this is the end
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Two parties, opposite in goals and in means
     Their lifestyle seems idyllic almost sanguine
It's only a façade, behind a closed door
     Any time together feels like a bore
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First, bring to her what she sees in herself
     Power and glory, wisdom and wealth 

Follow the song of the muse that she hears
     No longer chased by that what she fears

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Then for him, growing patiently older,
       His request is the one that is the bolder
He must go to the point where they meet
     Follow his heart to the echoing beat
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