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The story goes, or so I've been told
That humans once had souls of gold
And then traded them for apples
Thus ever since in varied chapels
We've pleaded, begged for their return
But nothing can ever be unearned.
We put our trust in everything
Yet nothing found could make us sing
The song we were born into
Before humanity came unglued
Before our love was misconstrued
As lust, as governmental trust
As coveting all that we had just
Seen in those around us.
Before we thought that money must
Hold the keys to happiness
Instead finding only loss and stress
And endless, vacant emptiness
As our love turned to duress.
We tried loving sex and loving land
We tried loving spitting in the hand
Of everyone we saw in need
We tried loving words and deeds
Governments, kings, came back to greed
Tried loving ornamental jewels and beads
But there was naught that did not kill us
Everything that once did thrill us
Now placed daggers in our backs
We watched the world now fade to black.
But one man came, and one man said
What you've loved has left you dead
But my love is stronger than all attacks
And when you fail, I can love you back
To life.
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