I'm drawing paths that wait only for you
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To you, child on the way, I walk ahead of your steps
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I whisper your name in the breath of my voice
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I'll offer you the world, you I don't yet know
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I open my heart wide to you like we open our hands
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I wish you joys as big as mine
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I'm learning the alphabets of each of your gestures
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I sing you my dreams of open space and the Far West
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I want for you love, rare and precious
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All the beauty of the world within reach of your eyes
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With fists heated white-hot, I forge for tomorrow
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Your joys that I wish as big as mine
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I give you the keys that open every chest
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I pulverize the walls of the prisons they're giving you
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I run to infinity so I won't leave you
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Everything I didn't say's 'cause you know it
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It's 'cause you know it
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To you, child who's coming like early morning
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I wish you joys as big as mine