Key: G
Genre: General
Harp Type: Any
Babel
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‘Cause I know that time has numbered my days
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And I’ll go along with everything you say
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But I’ll ride home laughing, look at me now
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The walls of my town, they come crumbling down
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And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
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And I know their choices color all I’ve done
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But I’ll explain it all to the watchman’s son,
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I ain’t ever lived a year better spent in love
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‘Cause I’ll know my weakness, know my voice
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And I’ll believe in grace and choice
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And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
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But I’ll be born without a mask woo
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Like the city that nurtured my greed and my pride,
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I stretched my arms into the sky
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I cry Babel! Babel! Look at me now
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Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down
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You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl,
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As all we see will slip into the cloud
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So come down from your mountain and stand where we’ve been,
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You know our breath is weak and our body thin
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Press my nose up, to the glass around your heart
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I should’ve known I was weaker from the start,
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You’ll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
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To tear, tear them down,
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Well I’m gonna tear, tear them down
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‘Cause I’ll know my weakness, know my voice
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And I’ll believe in grace and choice
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And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
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But I’ll be born without a mask woo
