On Heights

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I've been saying for a while
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if love and greed would only rhyme
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I'd be set to write a song or two
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If I were worth my wait in time
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Or fell into the bottom line
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that'd probably help me bank another few
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But as it is, I'm feeling tough
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My passions they don't help me much
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if I could shine my vision on the land
      G
you'd know my corners pretty rough
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but I've softened the important stuff
    G                                D
the gentle side-effect you've always had

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But someday we'll be taught in textbooks
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And make our way across the molding
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Minds of everyone alive
    Am       C    D   G
But we still rely on heights
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I climbed that old tree in the yard
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in its roots I kept my heart
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so it might grow, and I could reach new heights
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I never did quite reach the top
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the furthest branch couldn't keep me up
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though I was brave, I wasn't meant for flight
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I asked my dad if that tree would die
    C
and I can't forget his one reply:
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"son, you'll be dead and gone before it falls"
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but now I stand on what remains the
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embers not unlike a grave and
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wonder if I'll ever feel that tall

    C       D        G
But someday we'll be taught in textbooks
Em       C           G
And make our way across the molding
C        D    Bm      Em
Minds of everyone alive
    Am       C    D   G
But we still rely on heights
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    C       D        G
But someday we'll be taught in textbooks
Em       C           G
And make our way across the molding
C        D    Bm      Em
Minds of everyone alive
    Am       C       G
But we still rely on heights

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