Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Nomads.Indians.Saints

You and Me of the 10,000 Wars
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(Emily Saliers)

you and me of the 10,000 wards,
dividing live into factions of pleasures and chores -
a bed to be made and a bed to lie in,
a hand in the darker side and our sights set on Zion.
the heart of a skeptic and the mind of a child,
put my life in a box and let my imagination run wild
pour the cement for my feet.
the heart and the mind on a parallel course
never the two shall meet
and, oh, the dissatisfied with the satisfied
everybody loves a melodrama
and the scandal of a lie -
still you held your arms open for the prodigal daughter
i see my eyes in your eyes through my eyes -
still waters.
try making one and one make one
twist the shapes until everything comes undone
watch the wizard behind the curtain
the larger than life and the power of seeming certain.
the evil ego and the vice of pride
is there ever anything that makes us take our different sides?
i wanted everything to feed me.
about as full as i got was of myself
and the upper echelons of mediocrity -
after the battle and we're still around
everything once up in the air has settled down
sweep the ashes, let the silence find us
a moment of peace is worth every war behind us
you and me of the 10,000 wars

Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle