Sprout

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She came in the night on the ninth of October
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They looked me in my red eyes and said she won't last
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We all knew that she should've slept until mid-December
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When it comes to the lot I have learned, I can't count on the cast

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That night a vision came
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At the same time both vivid and vague
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Of a father looking on
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As he burns to the ground the house that he made

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When I woke, I had been slain in the spirit of reason
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Bap-tized in the rolling dark waters of doubt
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'Cause I'm told it's your will to withhold, but it feels like treason
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A rain cloud refusing to pour in a season of drought

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That night a vision came
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At the same time both vivid and vague
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Of a father looking on
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As he burns to the ground the house that he made

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And I heard him say
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It was well on its way
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Just look how it swayed
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How it crumbled and caved
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As the crimson glow of the fire caught his eye
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I could tell he could hear, as well could I
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That along with the crackle and growl of the fire
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Came a call quite small from inside--
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I'm in here alive

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But now, a child is born, she is bent but not broken
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A spark, a seed and a sprout
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A miracle or catastrophe
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This child who's orphaned her family