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

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

Em 
I came to you and you to me  
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And we were barking at the drug dogs, blood dried black on their hands 
C                    Em 
  And never realized 
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You never tussle with a giant til you can hit him right between the eyes 
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And that no matter how we chewed it, we’d be choking on a compromise 
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Cause all the jaws, all the claws lay restless by the riverside 
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And it wasn’t muscle in the shadow that was shoving us into the light 

Em   
I came to you and you to me 
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And we were snatching at a war baby’s bottle just to trade it for change 
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  But now it’s come to pass 
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That every eye beneath the mountain saw the smoke but no one heard the blast 
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That no one knew the arm was broken although everybody signed the cast 
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And until the government was good, she said “Man, I thought you’d never ask” 
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And when love wore out her welcome, they just booked her for a bag of grass 
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That while she cried on the cross, we were sucking on the laughing gas 
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And when the head had left the body, not a flag was hanging half-mast 

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