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All around me,
people hurt and kill.
"You should join us!"
"No, I must stand still."
Their limbs are tied,
they say they are freed.
Sins hold them tight,
but mine make me bleed.
Evil sinks down,
but fades not away;
I love the night,
but yearn for the day.
While some things fall,
other things take flight.
I am too weak,
a pillar of might.
Some people soar,
how freely they fly!
My wings are too small,
theirs cover the sky.
Fliers have joy,
their hearts God does fill.
"You should join us!"
"No, I must stand still."
The horizon...
is that the place for me?
Between black ground,
and clear air so free?
So I stand here,
for stand here I must.
Afraid to fall,
afraid to trust.
people hurt and kill.
"You should join us!"
"No, I must stand still."
Their limbs are tied,
they say they are freed.
Sins hold them tight,
but mine make me bleed.
Evil sinks down,
but fades not away;
I love the night,
but yearn for the day.
While some things fall,
other things take flight.
I am too weak,
a pillar of might.
Some people soar,
how freely they fly!
My wings are too small,
theirs cover the sky.
Fliers have joy,
their hearts God does fill.
"You should join us!"
"No, I must stand still."
The horizon...
is that the place for me?
Between black ground,
and clear air so free?
So I stand here,
for stand here I must.
Afraid to fall,
afraid to trust.
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Interesting use of contradiction. Reminds me of Romans 7:15-20. (This is NIV -- some other translations are clearer, but I like the convolutedness of this one. How may times can a person use "do" in a sentence???)
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."