two men

Two men sit and talk their life stories they're

Grown men sitting under beds weeping like

Children one that can't even believe a word anybody tells them

That man

Turns to his friend in desperation

Explain what you see right from your window pane

Alright says his friend at fifteen years strong

Cause he knows that man will never walk again

I see blue birds you know what they are right

Well they flying outside

I see sunshine from afar

Hiding the rain that's in your heart

I see love in the mothers eyes

Children playing outside

Sister

It wont be long

It wont be long my friend,

My friend, my friend 2x

Oh yeah it wont be long

Two years past just in the same religion

Five minutes of a day lit a spark in that mans eyes

Ought to hear the joy coming from him is different

Soon found his time was justified

But one morning the nurse who came to dress that painter

Found nothing but the colours of his heart and mind

Spread lay down across the bed in which came accustomed

He passed on in the night

Chorus

All alone

Moving to his old friends bedside

He asked to see the view of which he spoke

All he sees is a wall made of brick

And all this time

He didn't know his friend was blind

So dear friend, wherever you may be up high

I thank you for the joy you give to me all the time

Someday soon I'll meet you on the other side

And just a week

That man had closed his eyes

They see blue birds they know what they are now

Sure they're flying outside

They see sunshine from afar

Showing the love within their hearts

They see love in the mothers eyes

Children playing outside

They know now

They've arrived

It wont be long

It wont be long my friend,

My friend, my friend 2x

Oh yeah it wont be long

I know

You're looking down on me now

the practice

Sometimes, when a loved one asks for the truth, the most good that you can do is to shade it in a soothing light. Harsh reality that has no purpose but to grate on suffering has no place. Sometimes it is only right that white lies take the place of unnecessary truths... 

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