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[C]Jeremy Lee - at an [G]ice-creamery on the [F]evening of [G]October [C]10 --

>lost [F]55 [G]dollars and [C]70 cents,
>was shot [F]twice in the [G]chest and [C]again in the head.
>The po[F]lice found him [G]dead by the [C]walk-in.

>>But he'd [F]loved God so [G]much, as he [C]lay in[G]side his [Am]bed,
>>he could [F]feel Her sweep [G]over his [C]skin.

>He could feel Her filling the air with the weight of Her care,
>and didn't care what was waiting for him:

>>How he'd [F]cry, cry so [G]much, knowing[C] that this [G]was the[F] end,
>>and then [F]feel like a [G]leaf [C]lif[G]ted by [F]wind.

>How I'd love him so much that I almost cave in
>every time my hand touches the pen.

>So lower your cameras and switch off the spot.
>You shouldn't be proud of the footage you got,
>because there won't be an end to the similar shots
>that have happened, are happening,
>and can't be prevented from endlessly happening again.

>>For all your pride and your comfort and speed of ascent,
>>you're heading too soon to a similar end --

>only coughing up blood in a hospital bed
>as your heart-attack, cancer or car accident
>breaks you down to a place in the ground
>for your [G]kids to come [C]visit.

>And if God loves us back, we should know, out and in,
>that She must have no control over this world's events,
>because no one deserves this much punishment.
 
But now it`s late in the autumn and leaves line the bend.
It's a beautiful day for the first snow to land,
so it's landing on me and on Jeremy Lee,
who left this world gracefully, broken.

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