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Book of Common Prayer
Joe Henry
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Well, here come the armies of every sworn nation on Earth
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They asked for your papers, for the height and the weight of your worth
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They put you in back rooms, where there's always more people than chairs
And no table to hold up the book of our most common prayer
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Leave through the restaurant kitchen, hide out in the street
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Smoking the last leaves of fall that have danced at our feet
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They rise now like spirits that have traded this grounding for air
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And now read from the rafters, the book of our most common prayer
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As evening is fading, it sings like an old city burns
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We listen in waiting for all we have yet to unlearn, hm-mm
How is it we've held out through all of these rumbling years
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That rush like the wind from our sails through a tubmle of tears?
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We stand now beholding to love and the breach it repairs
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And binds us together with the thread of our most common prayer
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