A Song To Comfort The Sick

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I‘m weighing down the covers of my bed.
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I feel so heavy from the silence of what wasn't said.
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Though it's dark in here I see fluorescent lights above your head,
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making me green cause they're looking over you instead.

[Verse 2]
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Oh how I wish I was a helpful one.
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But I can't be the one who's hovering 'round always asking you what's wrong.
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This distance grew up carelessly but how easily it keeps me
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from needing to be there when you need me there.
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I hope when you need me there I'll show up again

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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And keep you warm and make the bed
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and hold a washcloth to your perspirating forehead.
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But you think a lover, not a friend, will drive those secret demons in
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though the silence is the place that they begin.

[Verse 4]
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Oh yes the silence is the place that they begin.
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I spent a lot of time just figuring that out, friend.
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So if there's something wrong inside me I hope some other soul will find me
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here in this aging set of skin,
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'cause these are the bodies we're stuck in.
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And if I had it all to do again
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I'd have driven over before they checked you in