Namelessnumberheadman - I Know How You Got Old lyrics

rate me

Read the play in the spring<br />

Thought a lot about God's role in suffering<br />

And all...all of the millions of times.<br />

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I heard the news in July<br />

Had no symptoms, only the reasons why<br />

All...all of those lost, sacred rhymes were lies.<br />

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I had imagined it mattered which reasons to use<br />

But winter brought nothing but all the bad news we could bear<br />

Could hardly bear<br />

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Heard your voice through the glass<br />

Felt you standing at every slow street I passed<br />

And then...then I was standing alone.<br />

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I strained to think what you said<br />

To remember the last couple lines you read<br />

And grinned...grinned with the grace of a saint<br />

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I had imagined the best way to deal with the blow<br />

We stood on the lawn and we sang in the snow<br />

How I wanted God to know<br />

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I know how you got old.