Key: C
Introduction: Am
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I skimmed across Blackwater without once submerging
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onto the banks of an urban morning,
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that hungers the first light much, much more
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than the mountains ever do.
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And she like a ghost beside me
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goes down with the ease of a dolphin
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and emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed,
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for she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature
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and I am the geek with the alchemist's stone.
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For all of you who must discover,
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for all who seek to understand,
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for having left the path of others,
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you find a very special hand.
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And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,
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and it is the only way,
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forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes
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to ponder his debt and his life eternally.
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For all of you who must discover,
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for all who seek to understand,
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for having left the path of others,
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you find a very special hand.
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And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,
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and it is the only way,
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forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes
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to ponder his debt and his life eternally.
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One bright blue rose outlives all those
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two thousand years, and still it goes
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to ponder his debt and his life eternally.