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A#m I a fool? Is my hoping in vain?
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I planted the seed of a shading tree, but I'm standing in the rain
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A#m I fool? How can it be
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I keep picking the scab of an old wound just to watch it bleed
[Chorus]
G# G Cm
and it's so heavy, too heavy to hold
[Verse]
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I watch my cup, fill up with doubt
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I keep drinking it up, you keep pouring it out
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You push so hard and I push back
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before I've even turned around your sights are set aimed and ready to attack
[Chorus]
G# G Cm
and it's so heavy too heavy to hold
G# G Cm
it's so heavy too heavy to hold
[Bridge]
G# G
I can't catch up
G# G
there's not enough time
G# G
we are so disconnected, discontented disappointed 'cause we lack connection
G#
with each other and with the earth
G
ignorantly thinking this is how it works
G#
our lives have no meaning but defeat the machine
G
repelling sadness and pain with the swip of a screen
G#
people closing their mind, sewing their third eye shut
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measuring what with money? and things they have not
[Chorus]
G# G Cm
and it's just so heavy, too heavy to hold
G# G Cm
it's just so heavy, too heavy to hold
[Outro]
Cm F Cm F
A#m I a fool? Is my hoping in vain?