LYRIC FOR SALE

By Janice Marie Foote

When the Levee Breaks...

Verse 1:
Time is a salutary snake charmer
Casting off old emotional scars
Of fragile skin woven and worn
Over life's built-in self-defense
In love's bid for self-protection

Verse 2:
Yeah life may push us down
But our dreams will pull us back up
If love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 3:
Love is time's peaceful disarmer
Gently dissolving life's built up walls
Liberating us from our bound past
When destiny's die was fatefully cast
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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Verse 4:
Time is the taker of our taming years
Who releases our soul's wild nature
To reveal dreams beneath live flesh
Held deep within our feral hearts
Under love's sheath of self-preservation

Verse 5:
Sure life can push us out of bounds
But our dreams will pull us back in
When love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 6:
Love is time's morphing shapeshifter
Life's ancient seer transforming us
From idle dreamers into ardent doers
Chasing chimeras across seven continents
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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Verse 7:
Time is a mystical dream weaver
Sifting visions through an hourglass
As we wildly wander and search
For life's sacred gathering houses
Where spiritual love is boundless

Verse 8:
So when life pushes us down
Our dreams will pull us back up
If love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 9:
Love is time's gathering hands
Tenderly weaving our kindred lives
Connected by life's liminal moments
As we cross great divides to live harmoniously
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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... jmf (c) ...