I Said That I Would Sing chords by Kirtana

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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I first heard about this place
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this little lump of clay
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on a message board in space
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about a billion stars away.




The ad read:
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‘Floating garden orb circling a sun.
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Help us build a heaven here.

We need one more volunteer’.
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So I said that I would come.
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I was asked when I applied
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to name some service I could bring.
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I think service should be joyous
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so I said that I would sing.
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Well
I guess I got the job.
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And I don’t mean to complain.
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But it’s not like they described

in that little classified
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that I read before I came.
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Had I somehow missed a turn?
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Was this even the right place?
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Had I fallen for a scam
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or was it more a fall from grace?
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Oh, it’s beautiful alright
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how I love the desert sky.
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And a quiet mountain lake
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is enough to make me cry.
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But I did not come prepared
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for the density or strife
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for the cruel and inhumane

injustices and pain
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that can pass here for a life.
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So from a very early age
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I grew restless here because
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of this longing to go home
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though I could not say where home was.
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Then in answer to my prayer
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or more truthfully my scream
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my beloved self appeared
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come to wake me from this dream.
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And with a diamond voice declared:
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“Home is not some distant star
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or some heavenly reward

that your days are marching toward
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but the truth of who you are
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An awareness so immense
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it holds all of this inside…”
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As she spoke my mind fell still
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but my tears would not subside.
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And from the arms of grace
I knew
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that all suffering would cease
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if we could yield to this embrace
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if we just trusted in this peace.
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To even try to find the words
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can be a sacrilegious thing:
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So I’d just as soon be silent
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….but I said that I would sing.