Mewithoutyou - Four Letter Word (Pt. Two) lyrics

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I wrote a four word letter...with post-script in crooked lines,<br />

"Though I'd lived I'd never been alive."<br />

And you know who I am...you held my hem as I traveled blind,<br />

Listening to the whispering in my ear, soft but getting stronger,<br />

Telling me the only purpose of my being here is to stay a bit longer.<br />

Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,<br />

And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,<br />

But aimlessly drifting around.<br />

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Oh, doubters, let's go down...let's go down, won't you come on down?<br />

Oh, doubters, let's go down...down to the river to pray.<br />

"Oh, but I'm so small I can barely be seen...how can this great love be inside of me?"<br />

Look at your eyes....they're small in size, but they see enormous things.<br />

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Wearing black canvas slippers in our frog-on-a-lily-pad pose,<br />

We sewed buttons and zippers to Chinese pink silk and olive night clothes.<br />

If you could someday stop by somehow we'll show you the pictures and fix you some tea...<br />

See, my dad's getting a bit older now, and just unimaginably lonely!<br />

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Oh, pretenders, let's go down...let's go down, won't you come on down?<br />

Oh, pretenders, let's go down...down to the river to pray.<br />

"Oh, but I'm so afraid" or "I'm set in my ways"<br />

But He'll make the rabbits and rocks sing His praise.<br />

"Oh, but I'm too tired, I won't last long."<br />

No, He'll use the weak to overcome the strong!<br />

Oh, Amanda, let's go down...let's go down, won't you come on down?<br />

Mama, Nana, let's go down...down in the dirt by the river to pray.<br />

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(A wick to fit the wax...wood to fit the wire)<br />

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You strike the match...why not be utterly changed to fire?<br />

To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?<br />

So if you'd care to come along, we're gonna curb all our never-ending, clever complaining,<br />

As who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?<br />

Though we hunger, though all that we eat brings us little relief,<br />

We don't know quite what else to do;<br />

We have all our beliefs, but we don't want our beliefs...<br />

God of Peace, we want You.