Andrea Gibson - Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns (2008)

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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.

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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.

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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

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If you're handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys, 'til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

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I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people

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She's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

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Right now there's a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there's a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday.

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I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

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And I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

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I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I've seen flowers bloom at midnight. I've seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

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