[00:00.00]This earth - Dar Williams
[00:09.48]In my life on Earth
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[00:13.04]The things I have invented have invented me
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[00:19.97]I've found my industry
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[00:25.83]And I am not alone
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[00:29.59]I've fashioned friends from precious scraps
[00:33.46]They hold the light they bend to serve me
[00:38.39]Joking that they don't deserve me
[00:42.63]After days of craft and care
[00:46.13]I lift a sword and slice the air
[00:50.87]Such has been my time upon this Earth
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[00:58.68]This Earth
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[01:03.61]When my wife returns
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[01:07.28]More beautiful than when she left the night before
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[01:14.03]I show her things I made
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[01:20.13]A filigree of ferns diamond snowflakes tears of gold
[01:27.77]She murmurs praise a small caress
[01:31.96]I smile to see her happiness
[01:36.88]Silver webs with sanded grain
[01:40.39]That catch and hold real drops of rain
[01:45.18]Such has been my toil upon this Earth
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[01:52.98]This Earth
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[01:57.85]When I'm feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep
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[02:06.21]Then stand back and push a button from a distance
[02:11.58]Watch the earth explode
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[02:22.13]This Earth
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[02:30.93]I love this land of mortal men
[02:34.54]They wake to know the fire again
[02:39.42]The things we make the things we feel
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[02:43.72]Armor plates and molten steel
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[02:47.89]All of these inventions of the Earth
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[02:55.61]This Earth