| It’s 2 am, as we pull into the humble hotel
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| German countryside; | 
| everyone is shut up tight
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| Warmth and light welcome, as all file inside
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| I entered, belated, to see our troop elated, faces filled up with joy
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| Blessed communication
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| The source stood behind the counter
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| A man, salt and pepper, his face beamed like a boy’s
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| We are all given dark and light
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| A beautiful contrast of black and white
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| You can hide in the darkness
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| Or strive for healthy progress
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| Forgive what makes us human
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| We could grow an earthly heaven
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| He told us of our origins, spoke of when ideas gave birth to breath
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| He spoke about love and respect
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| I felt fire rise up in my chest
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| Loving because He first loved us
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| Clean or dirty, the Ocean remains as One!
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| I’ve never felt such a warm embrace, well-known stranger, his smile, a handshake
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| And while he swept the floor
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| Oh God, he called on me by name!
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| Even as the smoke hung in our lungs, like old friends we circled up
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| Peter, preaching Life, passed his Marlboro
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| On nights like tonight I come outside
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| Enjoy the pins of light, littering the sky
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| Run my fingers down the lifeline of the hanging leaf
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| We are all given dark and light
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| A beautiful contrast of black and white
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| You can hide in the darkness
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| Or strive for healthy progress
 | 
| Forgive what makes us human
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| We could grow an earthly heaven
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| We are all given dark and light
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| A beautiful contrast of black and white
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| You can hide in the darkness
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| Or strive for healthy progress
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| Forgive what makes us human
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| We could grow an earthly heaven
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| Thinking of how that life also resides in me
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| The mark of the Creator, we share the same energy
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| Our light and our dark
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| The dull side and the shiny
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| Creates the being whole, and distracts not from beauty
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| For glory is revealed in everything, shared energy
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| We must own and control the dark that we’re given
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| Magnify the light, loving what is just and right
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| And cultivate for ourselves an earthly heaven |