Lovers Revolution

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I came to you and you to me
And we were tapping on the window at
 the children when the piggy bank 
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broke
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  Pitching quite a fit
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About how the makers of the 
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medicine will always say you’re 
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looking sick

Em
I came to you and you to me
And we would whimper to the women 
washing milk off of their formal 
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white clothes
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  But the funny thing
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Was how when God was in his people 
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we were dreaming about who else to 
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be
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And all the fingers that we damaged
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 when all we wanted was a diamond 
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ring

Em
I came to you and you to me
And we were barking at the drug 
dogs, blood dried black on their 
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hands
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  And never realized
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You never tussle with a giant til 
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you can hit him right between the 
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eyes
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And that no matter how we chewed 
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it, we’d be choking on a compromise
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Cause all the jaws, all the claws 
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lay restless by the riverside
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And it wasn’t muscle in the shadow 
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that was shoving us into the light
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Em
I came to you and you to me
And we were snatching at a war 
baby’s bottle just to trade it for 
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change
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  But now it’s come to pass
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That every eye beneath the mountain
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 saw the smoke but no one heard the
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 blast
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That no one knew the arm was broken
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 although everybody signed the cast
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And until the government was good, 
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she said “Man, I thought you’d 
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never ask”
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And when love wore out her welcome,
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 they just booked her for a bag of 
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grass
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That while she cried on the cross, 
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we were sucking on the laughing gas
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And when the head had left the 
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body, not a flag was hanging 
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half-mast

Em
I came to you and you to me
And then we lost our own lovers’ 
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revolution but it started again
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  And now we’re one
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One of the parade wake widows 
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walking home into the setting sun
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One of the soldiers lost in the 
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dreams that never lose the gun
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One of the wise men wandering the 
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podium without a tongue
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One of the trophies tarnished by 
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the mess we made of being young
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One of the prayers, one of the 
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promises swallowed with our chewing
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 gum
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One of the deaf ears, dumber all 
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the time for all the years of drums
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One of the wide-eyed soap boxes 
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buried under Washington
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One of the beat cops combing every 
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sidewalk crack for love
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One of the crowded stars uncounted
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 when the map was done
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One of the withered in the garden 
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left to wonder when the rain will 
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come