Verse 1:
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If I was a bolt of lightning I would shoot right down and split the sky
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in two and I would be so bright i would light up the darkest night
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Well maybe I'll come back as one, i think it would be lots of fun
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To zap the earth and strike the sea with a billion bolts of energy
(count 6 beats I think!)
Verse 2:
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And if I was a bird out on the wing the sweetest song you'd hear me sing
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I would whistle sounds like secret words in a language no ones ever heard
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The tune around your ear would ring so mesmerizing you would think
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that I was something quite absurd, more like an angel than a bird
(count 6 beats)
Chorus:
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But today I don't want to be anything else but myself
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Cause today i am a little bit of all these things
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Theres a little bit of all these things in me
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I got all right here in my hand
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i'm a lightning, bird, wind, river, man.
(count 6 beats)
Verse 3:
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And if I was a gust of wind i'd blow around the world three times or so
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I would pick up half and million leaves and make a sculpture on the breeze
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So beautiful that god himself would want to know how do as well
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Hed'd offer me a handsome price just to be the wind in paradise
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And if I was a river I would be a raging river wild and free
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I would find my way around anything just to get where I was going
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So treacherous would be my rath you'd never try to cross my path
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I'd run so fast into the sea, you'd see the waves from mercury
(count 6 beats)
Chorus:
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But today I don't want to be anything else but myself
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Cause today i am a little bit of all these things
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Theres a little bit of all these things in me
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I got all right here in my hand
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i'm a lightning, bird, wind, river, man.
(count 6 beats)
Chorus:
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Yes today I don't want to be anything else but myself
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Cause today i am a little bit of all these things
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Theres a little bit of all these things in me
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I got all right here in my hand
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i'm a lightning, bird, wind, river, man.n.
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