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Artist: Carolyn Arends
Canonical path: /carolyn-arends/only-love
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Only Love
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Only Love
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
No one ever overcomes the dark with darkness
It takes a little light to chase the shadows back
So tell me why I try to fight the hate with hatred
When only love can do that
When I'm in this hole I just keep digging deeper
And when I lose my way I circle 'round this track
Trying to mend my heart with all the things that break it
When only love can do that
Only love, only love
Only love, only love
The more I try to fill me up
The more I lack
'Cause only love can do that
Well I could swear sometimes it seems like I'm in quicksand
Or like I'm sinking fast in water cold and black
I go deeper down the more I try to save me
Guess only love can do that
Only love, only love
Only love, only love
The more I try to fill me up
The more I lack
'Cause only love can do that
Well I have heard it said that you might be the answer
And it occurs to me -- that could be a fact
'Cause it was you who gave your life up for another
And only love can do that
Only love, only love
Only love, only love
The more I try to fill me up
The more I lack
'Cause only love can do that
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