BC#m
She went off to the city
EB
To find what she was looking for
BC#m
To identify, to really try
EB
To find herself some hope
BC#m
With the summer sun for laughing
E
And the winter rain did pour
BC#m
She was lovelier from learning
EB
And from living, loving more
BC#m
From her dancing love and young soul
EB
And the gypsies in her dream
BC#m
To the pulse of stark acceptance
EB
When the winds began to freeze
C#m
With no curfews left to hold her
C#mE
And no walls to shield her pain
BC#m
Finding out that facts were older
EB
And that life forms are insane.
BC#m
The presence of protection seemed
EB
To fade, as did her doubt
C#m
That she now was no exception
EB
Nor was the love who pushed her out
Though the streets cried out,
C#m
Go, homesick
C#mE
Virtues strength of mind would ring
BC#m
In the maladies of meaning
EB
The sad song she learned to sing.
BC#m
Now, her teachers and philosophers
EB
And the poet's silver throat
C#mEB
Are the vessels which on wisdom's karmic ocean she will float.
C#m
Was this her revolution,
E
Just a child in love's crusade,
BC#m
With the question in her innocence
EB
Through the lies her eyes betrayed?
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