Kurt Elling, The Waking

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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
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I feel my fate in what i cannot fear
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i learn by going where i have to go
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we think by feeling, what is there to know?
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I hear my being dance from ear to ear
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
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of those so close beside me, which are you?
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God bless the ground! I shall walk softly there,
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And learn by going where i have to go.
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Light takes the trees, but who can tell us how?
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The lowly worm climbs up the winding stair;
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
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Great Nature has another thing to do
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To you and me; so take the livley air
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and, lovely, learn by going where to go.
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lovley learn by going where to go.

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THis shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
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What falls away, what falls away is always and is near.
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
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