[00:01.33]Artist：dry the river
[00:02.97]Songs Title：history book
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[00:17.52]Like faithful oxen through chalk,the
[00:22.06]With dragging tails of history walk.
[00:26.14]Soon confuse the compass cross.and the
[00:33.90]Carefully and cursively we fill our travelling diaries with loss.
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[00:50.74]Beneath an angry Bible flood,
[00:55.44]Did you and I first learn to love.
[00:59.70]In my father's car we came to know.
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[01:06.74]And shivered in our painted clothes and paired like every animal below.
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[01:23.79]heavy As as a history book can be,
[01:27.67]I will carry it with me, oh Lord.
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[01:39.14]And maybe when the bitterness has gone,
[01:42.77]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more.
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[01:55.27]Barefoot in a rowing boat,
[01:58.96]You lose your shoes and freeze your toes.
[02:03.54]And say I wear my sorrow like a crown.
[02:10.22]And throw your arms around my head, and see it there in gold and red and brown.
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[02:24.95]As heavy as a history book can be,
[02:28.71]I will carry it with me, oh Lord.
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[02:40.07]And maybe bitterness when the has gone,
[02:43.57]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more.
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[02:55.49]We'll soon forget our parents' names,
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[03:02.88]Like dogs will drive the wolves away.
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[03:10.29]And weep with fingertips opposed,
[03:15.51]Like a church where nobody congregates.
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[03:25.74]But sweetness sings in the pasture,
[03:29.19]We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth.
[03:33.00]If sand and salt have answer,the
[03:36.38]Then the act itself will be louder than the word.
[03:40.41]And I'll be on your side.