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I can smell the death on the sheets |
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Covering me |
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I can't believe this is the end |
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But this is my deathbed |
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I lie here alone |
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If I close my eyes tonight |
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I know I'll be home |
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The year was nineteen forty one |
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I was eight years old and |
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Far far too young |
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To know that the stories |
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Of battles and glory |
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Was a tale a kind mother |
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Made up for her son |
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You see |
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Dad was a traveling preacher |
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Teaching the words of the Teacher |
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But mother had sworn |
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Went off to the war |
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And died there with honor |
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Somewhere on a beach there |
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But he left once to never return |
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Which taught me that I should unlearn |
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Whatever I thought a father should be |
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I abandoned that thought |
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Like he abandoned me |
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By forty seven I was fourteen |
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I'd acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine |
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I smoked until I threw up |
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Yet I still lit 'em up for thirty more years |
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Like a machine |
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So right there you have it |
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That one filthy habit |
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Is what got me where I am today |
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I can smell the death on the sheets |
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Covering me |
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I can't believe this is the end |
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I can hear those sad memories |
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Still haunting me |
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So many things |
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I'd do again |
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But this is my deathbed |
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I lie here alone |
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If I close my eyes tonight |
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I know I'll be home |
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I got married on my twenty first |
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Eight months before my wife would give birth |
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It's easier to be sure you love someone |
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When her father inquires with the barrel of a gun |
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The union was far from harmonious |
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No two people could have been more alone than us |
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The years would go by and she'd love someone else |
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And I realized I hadn't been loved yet myself |
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From there it's your typical spiel |
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Yeah if life was a highway |
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I was drunk at the wheel |
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I was helping the loose ends |
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All fall apart |
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Yeah I swear I was destined to fail |
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And fail from the start |
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I bowled about six times a week |
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The bottle of Beam kept the memories from me |
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Our marriage had taken a seven-ten split |
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Along with my pride the ex-wife took the kids |
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I can smell the death on the sheets |
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Covering me |
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I can't believe this is the end |
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I can hear those sad memories |
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Still haunting me |
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So many things |
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I'd do again |
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But this is my deathbed |
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I lie here alone |
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If I close my eyes tonight |
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I know I'll be home |
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I was so scared of Jesus |
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But He sought me out |
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Like the cancer in my lungs |
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It's killing me now |
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And I've given up hope |
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On the days I have left |
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But I cling to the hope |
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Of my life in the next |
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Then Jesus showed up |
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Said "Before we go" |
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"I thought that we might reminisce" |
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"See one night in your life" |
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"When you turned out the light" |
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"You asked for and prayed for my forgiveness" |
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You cried wolf |
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The tears they soaked your fur |
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The blood dripped from your fangs |
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You said, "What have I done?" |
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You loved that lamb |
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With every sinful bone |
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And there you wept alone |
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Your heart was so contrite |
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You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes |
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Sanctify this withered heart of mine |
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Stay with me until my life is through |
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And on that day please take me home with you" |
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I can smell the death on the sheets |
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Covering me |
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I can't believe this is the end |
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I can hear You whisper to me, |
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"It's time to leave |
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You'll never be lonely again" |
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But this was my deathbed |
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I died there alone |
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When I closed my eyes tonight |
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You carried me home |
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| [09:59.20][Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings, as the voice of Jesus:] |
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I am the Way |
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Follow Me |
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And take My hand |
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And I am the Truth |
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Embrace Me and you'll understand |
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And I am the Life |
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And for Me you'll live again |
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For I am Love |
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I am Love |
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I, I am Love |
