Pale Blue Prevails

I can feel a difference

Today, a difference

All of us in our tents

Fearing god like a mistress

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We lay on the rocks in the sun

Watching you and your mama row in

I sat up and blinked when you appeared

So pale you were nearly clear

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Later I stumbled to my bed

All alone in the branches

I laid in the dark thinking about

All of my friends and their changes

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And I do not know

If you know just what you have done

You are the sweetest one

I have ever laid my eyes upon

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It's a beautiful town

With the rain coming down

Blackberry, rosemary

Jimmy-crack-corn

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You've got the run of the place

Now that you're running around

And may kindness,

Kindness, kindness abound

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In this hour of our lives

Hour of effortless plenty

How do we know which parts of our hearts want what

With such base generosity?

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Taking so many photographs, so amazed!

We've never seen a baby so newlyborn

And when the bulbs do flash as bright as morning

The crowd keeps on gathering like an electric storm

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The phantom of love moves among us at will

Each phantom-limb lost has got an angel

So confused like the wagging bobbed-tail of a bulldog

Kindness, kindness prevails

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Kindness prevails!

Ties and rails, ties and rails fall into line bearing kindness

Where will you go, if not here?

What will you say when you write to us?

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This is a world of terrible hardship everywhere

And I search for words to set you at ease

But there, in the looking-glass, a kite is soaring

Stilling my warring heart and my trembling knees

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Clean as a breeze, bright as the day

All of the people gather to say

"Sweet Esme! Sweet Esme!"

Oh, oh, oh!

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I believe love will always surround you

Brave as a bear with a heart rare and true

But if you are scared, if you are blue

I have prepared this small song for you:

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Sweet Esme! Sweet Esme!

Oh, oh, oh!

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