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The very day you were born, your light shone bold in the dark |
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The doctor said you had a hole in your heart |
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I just knew that you were making room for a whole lotta heart |
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And loved you from that day until your soul would depart |
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You took your first breath upon my chest |
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I built you a good nest before I left |
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It wasn't that I never loved your mother |
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But two happy homes are better than one that suffered |
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Every regret in this life that I made |
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Have been tempered by the strength in your eyes everyday |
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I know that you never said that you'd like me to stay |
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Still I'm sorry I neglected you while I was away |
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You were eight when we headed to casualty |
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And no child should face their death or mortality |
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You taught me patience, strength and morality |
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And I'd burdened this weight instead of you happily |
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That night, you asked if you'd die from your sickness |
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And why had it chosen your life out of millions |
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You filled me with the pride I was missing |
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Cause grown men cry, that lack your type of resilience |
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Only when it's dark that the stars are bright |
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For your fight, you gon' harbour these scars for life |
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But you're a brave little soul, came in the cold |
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Like a fighter, hope you find the same flame when you're old |
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Fall asleep and lay with me |
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We'll search the night for shooting stars |
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If they can't take away your pain |
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I'll take your hand, walk through the dark |
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The dark |
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The dark |
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I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed |
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Know this, your breath at the cost of my breath |
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I'd forgo this life, that you'd go on in my death |
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If you'd know what its like to live long and regret |
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So you could fight, you could shove, you could bleed and hurt |
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You could cry, you could love, and your creed will work |
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When your strides act dumb and you teethe your words |
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It'll take a wife to become your sky, sea and earth |
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But if these are things that you never see |
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With no god, just me, it'll set you free |
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And most others won't understand the hell in which you've been in |
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Til' they wrestle with the demon |
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But take heart to be brave, but first we fear |
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The same heart, the same pain, you persevere, will serve you |
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I know this world is of course unfair, and hurt you |
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But these virtues are yours to bear |
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I named you lionhearted the day you were born |
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They say the night is darkest before the dawn |
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I'll take your hand upon this path |
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If you can light a spark, then we can find some calm in a raging storm |
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Ain't nothing left to scare you see |
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So we can live life and cherish every breath we breathe |
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And no matter where you go, know we'll never leave |
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Cos' even when we're gone, we're living in a memory |
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So live on, live on |
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Fall asleep and lay with me |
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We'll search the night for shooting stars |
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If they can't take away your pain |
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I'll take your hand, walk through the dark |
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Fall asleep and lay with me |
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We'll search the night for shooting stars |
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If they can't take away your pain |
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I'll take your hand, walk through the dark |
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The dark |
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The dark |
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And I'm sorry that I can't take your pain, or answer why |
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I lay awake through darker skies |
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I say your name, you cast a light |
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Like a flame on a starless night |
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And I, didn't know what was lost 'til you found me |
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Didn't know what was locked in, without keys |
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But we can walk across all these boundaries |
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You and me, nothing here to stop you, you're now free |
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So I wrote this to give you hope |
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For every good thing in life you live to know |
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They say cancer survivors are gifted though |
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Let me know if that isn't so |
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