| The very day you were born, your light shone bold in the dark
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| The doctor said you had a hole in your heart
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| I just knew that you were making room for a whole lot of heart
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| And loved you from that day until your soul would depart
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| You took your first breath upon my chest
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| I built you a good nest before I left
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| It wasn’t that I never loved your mother
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| But two happy homes are better than one that suffered
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| Every regret in this life that I made
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| Have been tempered by the strength in your eyes everyday
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| I know that you never said that you’d like me to stay
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| Still I’m sorry I neglected you while I was away
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| You were eight when we headed to casualty
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| And no child should face their death or mortality
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| You taught me patience, strength and morality
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| And I’d burdened this weight instead of you happily
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| That night, you asked if you’d die from your sickness
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| And why had it chosen your life out of millions
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| You filled me with the pride I was missing
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| Cause grown men cry, that lack your type of resilience
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| Only when it’s dark that the stars are bright
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| For your fight, you gonna harbour these scars for life
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| But you’re a brave little soul, came in the cold
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| Like a fighter, hope you find the same flame when you’re old
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| Fall asleep and lay with me
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| We’ll search the night for shooting stars
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| If they can’t take away your pain
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| I’ll take your hand, walk through the dark
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| The dark
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| Through the dark
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| I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed
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| Know this, your breath at the cost of my breath
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| I’d forgo this life, that you’d go on in my death
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| If you’d know what It’s like to live long and regret
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| So you could fight, you could shove, you could bleed and hurt
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| You could cry, you could love, and your creed will work
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| When your strides act dumb and you teethe your words
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| It’ll take a wife to become your sky, sea and earth
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| But if these are things that you never see
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| With no god, just me, it’ll set you free
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| And most others won’t understand the hell in which you’ve been in
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| 'til they wrestle with the demon
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| But take heart to be brave, but first we fear
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| The same heart, the same pain, you persevere, will serve you
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| I know this world is of course unfair, and hurt you
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| But these virtues are yours to bear
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| I named you lionhearted the day you were born
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| They say the night is darkest before the dawn
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| I’ll take your hand upon this path
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| If you can light a spark, then we can find some calm in a raging storm
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| Ain’t nothing left to scare you see
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| So we can live life and cherish every breath we breathe
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| And no matter where you go, know we’ll never leave
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| Cause even when we’re gone, we’re living in a memory
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| So live on
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| Fall asleep and lay with me
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| We’ll search the night for shooting stars
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| If they can’t take away your pain
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| I’ll take your hand, walk through the dark
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| Fall asleep and lay with me
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| We’ll search the night for shooting stars
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| If they can’t take away your pain
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| I’ll take your hand, walk through the dark
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| The dark
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| Through the dark
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| And I’m sorry that I can’t take your pain, or answer why
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| I lay awake through, darker skies
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| I say your name, you cast a light
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| You’re a flame on a starless night
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| And I, didn’t know I was lost 'til you found me
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| Didn’t know I was locked in, without keys
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| But we can walk across all these boundaries
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| You and me, nothing here to stop you, you’re now free
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| So I wrote this to give you hope
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| For every good thing in life you live to know
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| They say cancer survivors are gifted though
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| Let me know if that isn’t so |