Intro: Bm / Bm / Bm / Bm
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Things change fast but this too shall pass
D G
Better carve it on your forehead or tattoo it on your ass
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Cause who can tell when the clock strikes twelve
D G
If today's become tomorrow or if it's all just gone to hell
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My friend makes rings she swirls and sings
D G
She's a mystic in the sense that she's still mystified by things
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But scared to ask how can nothing last
D G
Cause like a cancer in your body it all just goes too fast.
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We think too big we think our self is one whole thing
D G
And we claim that this collection has a name and is a being
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But deep inside when every cell divides
D G
It sets upon the rule that states self-interest is divine
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Cancer too lives by this golden rule
D G
That you must do unto the others as the others unto you
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All for the best cause that's all the life accepts
D G
And so we kill it like a buffalo with awe and with respect.
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Don't ask God just holler at the sky
D G
She'll tell it to you plainly in the clouds that whisper by
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And praise the shapes and then praise the way they change
D G
And they'll teach you not to pray to light without you pray to rain
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So I pray to hands and I pray to needs
D G
And I pray to blades of grass to find forgiveness in the weeds
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But as for health I just never did believe
D G
And so I never prayed myself except to those that prayed for me.
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The story goes or the way that I was told
D G
There was a king that always felt too high and then he fell too low
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And so he called all the wise men to the hall
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And begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls
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And here's the thing they came back with a ring
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It was simple and was plainly unbefitting of a king
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Engraved in black it had no front or back
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But there were words around the band that said just know: This Too Shall Pass
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