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"Dark clouds are coming in like an army"




"Soon the sky will open up and disarm me"




"You will go, just like you've gone before"




"One sad soldier off to war, enemies that only you can see"




"Dishes stacked, the table cleared"




"It's always like the scene of the last supper here"




"You speak so cryptically, that's not news to me"




"The flood is here, it will carry you"




"And I've got work to do"




"Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own"




"But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before"




"Come back here and shut the door"




"I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles"




"There is fire, there is lust"




"Some will trade it all for someone they could trust"




"There's a bag of silver for a box of nails"




"It's so simple, the betrayal"




"Though it's known to change the world and what's to come"




"Just come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own"




"But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before"




"Don't you recognize them anymore"




"I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles"




"There's the given and the expected"




"I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected"




"Is this for better, is this for worse"




"You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst"




"I hear the owl in the night"




"I realize that some things never are made right"




"By some will we string together here"




"Days to months and months to years"




"What if everything we have adds up to nothing?"




"Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own"




"But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before"




"Come back here and shut the door"




"I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles"

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