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Salvation

Step on me, step on you

There ain't nothing you gotta do

In between accidents

Honey, you won't repent

            Rambunctious revelation

            Gotta be your salvation

I might have made a mistake

Love's gonna be my last disgrace

            The darkness around is deep

            Your innocent song just repeats

            Can I see my own grief

            And not see your relief?

My mother would kiss me to sleep

Like you coming here tonight

To sing of the peace that

Blows outside my window and

Rains down on the shadows

            But it always hurts

            On those rainy afternoons

When the sun don't come

Because it don't believe anymore

            The rain that surrounds us

            Is just not the same

            Can you feel heaven riding

            On a downtown train?

The rose always pricks me with her thorn

She's got no mercy for the weary and worn

Sink or swim; sympathy for sin

She won't set me free, so what have I got to give?

            The darkness around is deep

            The rose pricks at me with her thorns

            I'm weary and worn

            From your arms I'm borne