North

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[Verse]
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There's a place I'm gonna leave to
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When all this questioning is through
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I'm gonna set my course to somewhere
 further North
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Than my eyes have ever viewed

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And though I know that the thought 
proceeds me
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I know that others seek it too
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But when I get where the needle 
leads me
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Well I swear, and I swear, you'll 
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never lead me away again

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And in the time when the peace of 
islands
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Was first by human hand disturbed
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They built their houses and they 
said obedience
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Was all the lives of men were worth

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And in the shadow of the temperance
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They laid boundaries in the dirt
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And when the door had a narrow 
entrance
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With their hands on their shirts 
they would pray for the 
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non-believers

[Chorus]
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And there's a place called North
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And they're gathering there to sing
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And I knock three times and beg them
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But they will not let me in
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And "Oh, my girl" they say
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"You're the carrier to no gain"
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But I lay, what I can, somewhere 
North of this and
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Would you turn me away again?

[Verse]
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And do you go where the needle leads
 to
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And when you get there will you 
change?
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Out where the nights are soft
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And now you go because you think 
that Paradise should be tamed

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And how you live is by a map of 
humanity
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And now you grip it 'cause you think
 that it saves
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But I've seen what you see, it looks
 different to me
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I see lights to the shore and all 
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these hearts beating other rhythms
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Now they die to be born
And all their mysteries are dying 
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with them

[Chorus]
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And there's a place called North
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And you're gathering there to sing
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And I knock three times and beg you
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But you will not let me in
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But though I love so hard
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Now I'm the carrier to this gate
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And I lay, what I can, somewhere 
North of us and
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Would you turn me away again?

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And would these winds would lift
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And they carry me to your door
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And I knock three times and tell you
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I can't help where I was born
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But don't I love enough
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Isn't holiness where it forms?
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If I take, what I have, to the North
Is there room on your piece of 
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Heaven?

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Oh would you turn me away again?