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Millstone:
I hope I was as cheap to you
As you must have been to me
I hope you’re good and past my name by now.
I stand in awe you knew my face
And that you ever trusted me
You must have gone and choked that flame by now.

Because I know you knew me better
Than I ever
Knew myself
And I believe you loved me better
Than I ever
Loved myself
Now next to God, none knows so well
Who I Am deep-down inside.
When we get there together
What will you testify?

I tied you to my millstone
And began to
Drag you down
And if I held you tighter
I would only
Drag you down
And if you loved me more than drawing breath
I would always
Drag you down
And if I loved you to death
I would only drag you down.
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You were slipping through my fingers
And I couldn’t bear to see
The sunlight far below take you from me.
Well, I’ve never reached the surface
Falling far and falling free
And now I know the one who slipped was me

And now I’m left to wonder
What you ever
Saw in me
And to know it would be better
If you sank
Into the sea
Now next to God, none knows so well
Who I Am deep-down inside.
When we get there together
What will you testify?

I tied you to my millstone
And began to
Drag you down
And if I held you tighter
I would only
Drag you down
And if you loved me more than drawing breath
I would always
Drag you down
And if I loved you to the death
I would only drag you down.