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lucky Come and run with me
Down by the shallow waters edge
Run through the painted trees
And lift your head to the littered clouds

Through the pathways winding
Skipping hand in hand
Searching for a perfect leaf
A promise guaranteed

Twirl under fading sunlight
Caress the falling day
Sing to me your song of life
How tomorrow never comes

Spin for your empty soul
Fall to the broken ground
Narrowly escape the lapping waters
Close your eyes and hear the sound

Now we're lying close to the waters edge
Feeling the bloody coursing pulse
The power rushing passed us
Washing everything away

We'd run so fast
And climbed so far
Twirled and fell again
Yet found no perfect leaf to calm our quiet hearts

And just as we began to walk away
A surge of water thundered passed
Sitting atop a rippling wave
We see the perfect leaf

We sigh in loss of perfection
Cry at the broken promise guaranteed
We lost perfection that day
That day at the river crossing
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