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The tide will turn

We’re all

A little bit

Nuts

Sailing our little boats

In big shoes 

To nowhere

In no place 

In no time 

But carrying on

Regardless 

Maybe 

What it is to be human 

Is to sail 

Endlessly

On

And maybe 

What it is 

To be human

Is to hit the land 

Hard

And soft

And carry on

And then 

To learn

That it 

Isn’t the fault of

The la...

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