The Story Of The Raven And The Mushroom Man

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[Verse 1]

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Late the other day when the earth turned away
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I found a little book, nearly blended in the grey
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But for its flower, drawn like a child on the cover!
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It was the story of the Raven and the Mushroom Man
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He was the first real friend he ever had


[Verse 2]

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I never want to be like that serious man
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Telling himself be a serious! Always counting those numbers!
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He’s got a red face and a mushroom head
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He spent too long in the rat race, too long in the dead days


[Interlude]

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[Verse 3]

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If only a Raven, with a sore wing
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Could fall at his feet, with eyes full of mercy
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The little Mushroom Man might fashion, a little splint out of
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driftwood
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And he might feel a little light shine, he might see his own kindness
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And think that “Maybe counting isn’t everything!
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Maybe there are more Ravens that need me more than numbers?”


[Interlude]

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[Verse 4]

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The Mushroom Man loved the Raven so
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And deep inside his heart, grew a thing called hope (hope)
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One Sunday night, the raven was weak
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He didn’t wake up, how the Mushroom Man weeped!
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It caused his planet to leak!


[Verse 5]

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Well, he buried his friend, and he buried his books
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He looked out to space, and his head he shook
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As he looked down,  gasp escaped!
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A sapling Rose grew from the Raven’s grave!


[Verse 6]

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From the Raven’s grave, hope had sprung!
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And he knew then, how it had been done
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As he’d tended to the Raven’s wing
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A Seed of Hope had grown within!
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And now it grows for all to see,
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and his planet is no longer just he.