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You, the Hero
The postman is delivering our letters
 Our delicate packages merely thrown over the gate
 So harshly you shout
 Stop, you yell, Wait
 He is carrying arsenic that they don't care about
 Nor do you, really, you only want to be
 A hero
 That is what they will call you
 You the hypocrit, your actions in vain
 I try to tell them your intentions are untrue
 A waste of time, I miss my train
  
 For a while I roam before heading home
 Admire the crashing wave the fragile foam
 My back to the sea heels hanging over the dock
 And below the water waits not a single rock
 I teeter back and forth waiting
 For that final gust of wind
 To send me in
  
 As the sun falls to slumber
 O dearest moon!
 Climbing over the water
 Illuminating the phosphorescent leaves
 Gently blown by the breath of her daughter
 I fall backward into the shining sea
 The hydrogen enveloping everything you see in me
 The oxygen enveloping everything you don't
 The fish pondering everything you won't
  
 I suppose all tonight
 Is perfectly alright

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