This Too Shall Pass

	  		


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Things change fast but this too shall pass 
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Better carve it on your forehead or tattoo it on your ass 
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Cause who can tell when the clock strikes twelve 
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If today's become tomorrow or if it's all just gone to hell 
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My friend makes rings she swirls and sings 
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She's a mystic in the sense that she's still mystified by things 
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But scared to ask how can nothing last 
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Cause like a cancer in your body it all just goes too fast. 


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We think too big we think our self is one whole thing 
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And we claim that this collection has a name and is a being 
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But deep inside when every cell divides 
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It sets upon the rule that states self-interest is divine 
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Cancer too lives by this golden rule 
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That you must do unto the others as the others unto you 
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All for the best cause that's all the life accepts 
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And so we kill it like a buffalo with awe and with respect. 


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Don't ask God just holler at the sky 
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She'll tell it to you plainly in the clouds that whisper by 
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And praise the shapes and then praise the way they change 
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And they'll teach you not to pray to light without you pray to rain 
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So I pray to hands and I pray to needs 
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And I pray to blades of grass to find forgiveness in the weeds 
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But as for health I just never did believe 
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And so I never prayed myself except to those that prayed for me. 


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The story goes or the way that I was told 
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There was a king that always felt too high and then he fell too low 
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And so he called all the wise men to the hall 
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And begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls 
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And here's the thing they came back with a ring 
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It was simple and was plainly unbefitting of a king 
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Engraved in black it had no front or back 
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But there were words around the band that said just know: This Too Shall Pass 

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