The Shattered Fortress

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X. Restraint
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 Freedom calls my name
 Serenity keeps me sane
 Happiness it dulls the pain
 Honest to see my place
 Open to other ways
 Willingness to understand
 Justice but do not judge
 Courtesy for others' flaws
 Kindness it's not that hard
 Self-restraint of tongue and pen
 Inventory my daily friend
 Analysis let down your guard
 Look in the mirror
 What do you see?
 The shattered fortress
 That once bound me
 Fateful ascent
 Through darkest fires
 I've found the path
 To take me higher
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 You're smart enough for me to trust go live your life now
 Just keep these steps in your life and you'll know how
 If you're not sure, ask yourself
 "Have I done to them
 As I would have them do to me?"
 Look in the mirror
 What's that you see?
 The shattered fortress
 Fly now be free
 Fateful ascent
 Through darkest fires
 I've found the path
 To take me higher
 I once thought it better to be right
 But now I have finally seen the light
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 Sometimes you've got to be wrong
 And learn from mistakes
 I live with serenity now
 Not self-righteous hate
 XI. Receive
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 (Help me be a channel of Thy peace
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 That where there is hatred, I may bring love
 That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness
 That where there is discord, I may bring harmony
 That where there is error, I may bring truth
 That where there is doubt, I may bring faith)
 Now that you can see all you have done
 (That where there is despair, I may bring hope
 That where there is shadows, I may bring light)
 It's time to take that step into the kingdom
 (That where there is sadness, I may bring joy)
 All your sins will help to make you strong
 (That I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted
 That I may seek to understand, rather than to be understood)
 And help you break right through the prison wall
 (That I may seek to love, rather than to be loved
 For it is by self-forgetting that one finds
 And it is by forgiving that one is forgiven)
 Keep all of me
 The desires that once burned me deep inside
 Help me live today
 And help to give me grace
 To carry out your way
 I am ready
 Help me be all I can be
 I am ready
 Help guide me and keep me free
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 XII. Responsible
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 I am responsible
 When anyone, anywhere
 Reaches out for help
 I want my hand to be there
 I am responsible
 When anyone, anywhere
 Reaches out for help
 I want my hand to be there
 

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Duration
12:49
Key
6
Tempo
138 BPM

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