Leaving This Life

	  		
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I am six years old in the back of my mother's car 
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And I will be seven in December 
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She will be gone by the beginning of next spring 
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And I will be left to remember 
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To re member 

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I ask my little questions 
She laughs a little laugh 
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But she won't tell me where we're going 
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She looks in my eyes with her eyes in the mirror 
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And says some things you're better off not knowing 
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Not knowing 

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But I don't know what her voice sounds like 
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I don't know what her skin feels like 
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I only know what it might feel like 
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When a mother holds her daughter 
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When that mother knows she's leaving this life 
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Leaving this life 

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She's left with that reflection of me at six years old 
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And I have her eyes in the mirror 
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Well she and I, we are defined by what we have lost 
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Don't you wonder whose loss is dearer 
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Dearer 

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She doesn't know what my voice sounds like 
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She doesn't know what my skin feels like 
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And I only know what it might feel like 
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When a mother holds her daughter 
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When that mother knows she's leaving this life 
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Leaving this life 

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And I don't know what her voice sounds like 
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And I don't know what her skin feels like 
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I only know what it might feel like 
       Bm               A 
When a mother holds her daughter 
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When that mother knows she's leaving this life 
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Leaving this life 
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Leaving this life 
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Leaving this life 
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Leaving this life