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Intro

my feet plow on from light to dawn

 my empty belly and my body aches ain't hard to take

 next to the weight I carry in my chest

 a pound of flesh could never tip the scale that I've made

 I should have stayed, but I was never wise

 I hear your voices in the wind that cuts the night

 and I pray to whatever is listening things will be alright

 oh, my boy, you're alive

 your heart's still beating

 so don't you mind, don't you mind

 we all drift sometimes

I can still hear your feet as you ran from the house

 but knowing you won't be back,

 doesn't mean that I will stop waiting

you told me then: Hold me down or hold me up to the fire,

 but don't you dare hold me back.

Interlude

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I see your faces in the clouds that scar the night

 and I pray to whoever is listening things will be alright

 then today I wake up feeling easy,

 and find I'm on the more familiar roads

 I got a darkness wrapped inside me,

 but now it ain't so hard to let it go

 so keep a candle burning in the window,

 I'm almost home

-Ben Malley