LYRIC FOR SALE

By Janice Marie Foote

When the Levee Breaks - #2
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Verse 1:
Time's a salutary snake charmer
Shedding past emotional scars
Of fragile skin worn and woven
Over love's bid for self-protection

Verse 2:
Love is time's peaceful disarmer
Dissolving life's deep-laid walls
Liberating us from our bound past
When destiny's die was fatefully cast

Evolving Refrain 1:
When life pushes us out of bounds
Our dreams will pull us back around
If love's levee breaks the ground
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Chorus:
When we're looking for love's answers
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions

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

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

If the levee overtops
Will we heed the call?
Should the levee breach
Will time break our fall?
When the levee breaks
Will love save us all?
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Verse 3:
Time's a taker of our quelling years
Releasing our soul's wild nature
Revealing dreams beneath live flesh
Held deep within our feral hearts

Verse 4:
Love is time's morpher shapeshifting fears
Transforming us from idle dreamers
Into ardent doers caught in a glimmer
Clockwise chasing chimeras unseen fate

Evolving Refrain 2:
If life pushes us to its end
Our dreams will pull us back in
If love's levee breaks the bend
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Chorus:
When we're looking for love's answers
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions

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

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

If the levee overtops
Will we heed the call?
Should the levee breach
Will time break our fall?
When the levee breaks
Will love save us all?
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Verse 5:
Time's a mystical dream weaver
Sifting visions through an hourglass
As we wildly search and wander
For life's sacred gathering houses

Verse 6:
Love is time's hands' mortal retriever
Weaving together our kindred lives
Connected by life's liminal moments
As we cross great continental divides

Evolving Refrain 3:
If life pushes us face down
Our dreams will pull on our head crown
When love's levee breaks the ground
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Chorus:
When we're looking for love's answers
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions

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

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

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