The Gift Lyrics - Bruce Cockburn

These shoes have walked some strange streets 

Stranger still to come 

Sometimes the prayers of strangers 

Are all that keeps them from 

Trying to stay static 

Something even death can't do 

Everything is motion 

To the motion be true 

In this cold commodity culture 

Where you lay your money down 

It's hard to even notice 

That all this earth is hallowed ground 

Harder still to feel it 

Basic as a breath 

Love is stronger than darkness 

Love is stronger than death 

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The gift 

Keeps moving 

Never know 

Where it's going to land 

You must stand 

Back and let it 

Keep on changing hands 

Hackles rise in anger 

Heat waves rise in sex 

The gift moves on regardless 

Tying this world to the next 

May you never tire of waiting 

Never feel that life is cheap 

May your life be filled with light 

Except for when you're trying to sleep 

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The gift 

Keeps moving 

Never know 

Where it's going to land 

You must stand 

Back and let it 

Keep on changing hands