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When two violins are placed in a room

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if a chord on one violin is struck

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the other violin will sound the note.

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[soft guitar plays in the background]

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If this is your definition of hope,

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this is for you.

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For the ones who know how powerful we are.

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Who know we can sound the music in the people around us

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simply by playing our own strings.

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For the ones who sing life into broken wings.

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Open their chests and offer their breath

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as wind on a still day when nothing seems to be moving

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spare those intent on proving god is dead

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for you when your fingers are red

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from clutching your heart

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so it will beat faster

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for the time you mastered the art of giving yourself

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for the sake of someone else

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for the ones who have felt what it is to crush the lies

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and lift truth so high the steeples bow to the sky

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this is for you

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this is also for the people who wake early to watch flowers bloom

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who notice the moon at noon

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on a day when the world has slapped them in the face with its lack of light

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for the mothers who feed their children first

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and thirst for nothing when they’re full

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this is for women

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and for the men who taught me only women bleed with the moon

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but there are men who cry when women bleed

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men who bleed from women’s wounds

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and this is for that moon

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on the nights she seems hung by a noose

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for the people who cut her loose

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and for the people still waiting for the rope to burn

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about to learn they have scissors in their hands

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this is for the man who showed me

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the hardest thing about having nothing

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is having nothing to give

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who said the only reason to live is to give ourselves away

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so this is for the day we’ll quit our jobs and work for something real

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we’ll feel for sunshine in the shadows

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look for sunrays in the shade

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this is for the people who rattle the cage that slave wage built

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and for the ones who didn’t know the filth until tonight

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but right now are beginning songs that sound something like

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people turning their porch lights on and calling the homeless back home

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this is for all the shit we own

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and for the day we’ll learn how much we have

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when we learn to give that shit away

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this is for doubt becoming faith

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for falling from grace and climbing back up

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for trading our silver platters for something that matters

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like the gold that shines from our hands when we hold each other

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this is for the grandmother who walked a thousand miles on broken glass

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to find that single patch of grass to plant a family tree

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where the fruit would grow to laugh

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for the ones who know the math of war

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has always been subtraction

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so they live like an action of addition

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for you when you give like every star is wishing on you

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and for the people still wishing on stars

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this is for you too

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this is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to

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for the time you taught a 14 year old girl she was powerful

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for the time you taught a 14 year old boy he was beautiful

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for the radical anarchist asking a republican to dance

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cause what’s the chance of anyone moving from right to left

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if the only moves they see are NBC and CBS

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this is for no becoming yes

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for scars becoming breath

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for fear becoming trust

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for saying i love you to people who will never say it to us

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for scraping away the rust and remembering how to shine

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for the dime you gave away when you didn’t have a penny

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for the many beautiful things we do

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for every song we’ve ever sung

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for refusing to believe in miracles

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because miracles are the impossible coming true

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and everything is possible

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this is for the possibility that guides us

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and for the possibilities still waiting to sing

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and spread their wings inside us

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cause tonight saturn is on his knees

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proposing with all of his ten thousand rings

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that whatever song we’ve been singing we sing even more

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the world needs us right now more than it ever has before

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pull all your strings

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play every chord

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if you’re writing letters to the prisoners

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start tearing down the bars

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if you’re handing our flashlights in the dark

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start handing our stars

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never go a second hushing the percussion of your heart

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play loud

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play like you know the clouds have left too many people cold and broken

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and you’re their last chance for sun

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play like there’s no time for hoping brighter days will come

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play like the apocalypse is only 4…3…2

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but you have a drum in your chest that could save us

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you have a song like a breath that could raise us

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like the sunrise into a dark sky that cries to be blue

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play like you know we won’t survive if you don’t

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but we will if you do

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play like saturn is on his knees

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proposing with all of his ten thousand rings

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that we give every single breath

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y'all, this is for saying–yes

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this is for saying–yes