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Johnny knows why he was spared in |
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Vietnam God has a reason for his sacrifice |
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Johnny knows |
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David thinks it all will fall on him |
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But the message is clear and he knows he has a purpose |
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The writer descends into the heart of the mine |
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Down to the bottom of the well of souls |
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Falling through darkness, bloodied and broken |
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He spreads the explosives as death takes hold |
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Johnny stands a final time as his life slips away |
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Tak screams in anger and commands that he stop |
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But the heart of the unformed can no longer sway him |
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And he finishes his life's last task |
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God can be everything, |
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God can be cruel |
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Sometimes |
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He makes us live |
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Carrying a burden for thirty three years |
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They are no longer his sins to forgive |
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With the smoke of the ini rising up in the sky |
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Destroyed by the power of daylight |
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The four survivors leave the nightmare behind them |
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And head toward the open highway |
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In the back of the car sits a folder of photos |
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Materializ4ed out of nowhere |
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The handwritten label says they're from |
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David's school |
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But the writing is in |
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Johnny's hand |
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Two different lives. somehow intertwined |
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Two vantage points of a parallax view |
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Heaven and |
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Earth, somehow connected |
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Giving a glimpse of the eternal truth |
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As he opened the folder, and pulls out the picture |
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Young David |
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Carver's astonished |
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The picture's of |
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Johnny and |
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David's dead sister |
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Although they have never met |
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In the picture they're standing on the very street |
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Where David's friend |
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Brian lay dying in his arms |
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Written at their feet, are the words |
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First John 4/8 |
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And Mary asks |
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David what it means. |
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God is Love |
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God can be everything, |
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God can be cruel |
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Sometimes |
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He makes us live |
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Carrying a burden for thirty three years |
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They are no longer his sins to forgive |
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God can be everything, |
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God can be cruel |
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Sometimes |
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He makes us live |
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Carrying a burden for thirty three years |
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They are no longer his sins to forgive |
