The Gift Of Song

	  		Gift Of Song, The 
by Neil Diamond, from the album Serenade 

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 Songs___  to make you free, 
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 And songs that take you to an - other time, 
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 forgotten reasons that are made of rhyme; 
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for you and me 
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the songs of life    that somehow make us free. 


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 Then wake    the sleeping child  
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 and let me sing to you of other times, 
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 and let me  make your dreams as sweet as mine, 
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and I will bring______ the gift of song 
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  that only makes us free. 

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 (And) songs__ to fill the heart. 
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   Like quiet candles on a winter's night 
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   they touch the spac-es__ that lies 'tween you and I; 
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and I will sing      the songs of love 
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that speak to you and me. 


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 Then wake    the sleeping child  
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 and let me sing to you of other times, 
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 and let me  make your dreams as sweet as mine, 
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and I will bring______ the gift of song 
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  that only makes us free. 

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