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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENbmz8ffRw

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If you asked me directly,

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If you watched me closely and gauged my response,

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I couldn't tell you what my life was meant for.

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I couldn't tell you why I did the things I did,

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Or overtly, why I didn't when the opportunities arose.

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It seems the wisest thing a person can say,

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That Socratic statement:

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"I don't know."

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If you were to ask me what I wanted,

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I'd say I wouldn't know.

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If you were to ask me how far I'd be willing to go,

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I'd say I've never had to,

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So I wouldn't know.

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If you were to ask me of law,

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Or of love

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Or of God,

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I'd say there seems to be all at once too much to know

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And not nearly yet, quite enough.

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I'd say it's not knowing that gives it substance

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And that I'd probably pity God

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In his making of it all.

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I don't know,

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I'd say.

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And I'd hope I never do.

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