I’ve been sitting in the cold for three days
I’ve been trying to understand the cause of your wicked way
I’m looking for an answer I know I’ll never find
Because as soon as I have the question it dissolves and leaves my mind
And this part of the garden is mine
It’s where I sit and wonder about what happens when you die
I hope the truth turns out to be a lie
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Oh Mary, oh Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary
I wonder if you could save me from this
Oh Mary, mother Mary, mother Mary, mother Mary
Was I put here so others know what suffering is?
And everyday swims by I’m a swan in a lake
Encumbered with thoughts about making my next mistake
I try to reach out and grab a hand
But I’m met by people with sadness of their own
In abandoned, barren lands
Oh if I could only
Oh if I could only
Plant flowers so bright and so new
On the land they tried to take from you
Where the sky is never blue
Just grey and eating away at everything that tries to bloom
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I’ll take the burden
Because nobody should know darkness like mine
And father, father, father I know
I’m too far gone
Not even you can punish my foe
It’s just too evil, too evil to prolong
Too dark for your light
Too monstrous for you to see my plight
That keeps even your angels up at night
Chorus
There’s no hero
No martyr in this book
Don’t know why I pray or remember the day
My heart, the fiends laughed at and took
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