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I wait for you in heaven
On this perfect string of love
And drink your soup of magpies in a
Pottery bowl that looks
As I am now, brown, round and warm

Chime on a rain wet
An ankle, toes or two
Sweetly as it drops upon your head
Just like it did today

Fortunately gone
I wait for you

Chime on a rain wet
An ankle, toes or two
Sweetly as it drops upon your head
Just like it did today

Fortunately gone
I wait for you (chorus *2)

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thegreenquetzal On May 30, 2002

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by JoeTheLion

19y ago

I love the way kim says heaven...

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by AceBigNuts

11y ago

Not sure when it was written, but it's featured on Michael "Eyedea" Larson's acoustic CD that came out after he died, 'When in Rome, Kill the King'. I like to think it was written for him. A great, talented artist who's life was cut short early.

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