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At one time it appeared that Everyone was walking their own angel On a leash, but Now we're not that sure at all And it could come out in song That it might really be the angels Who’ve been walking us All along All this broken glass

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I dig with no light to guide the aim of my shovel but the stars peeking through the trees which are fuller now then when you went away.

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I know it was the ceremonial magician who talked you into it. I know it was supposedly to be what the Enochean Angels needed to come into the vortex and into the world, make it all balanced on all four sides, four elements, so that when the world ended, t

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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.

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