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Artist: Paula Cole
Canonical path: /paula-cole/the-ladder
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The Ladder
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The Ladder
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Climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing...
Look, at how futile this is,
I'm so weak, so fragile, so torn.
Going round and round, going inside
To the circle, to the ladder, to the sky
I am climbing a ladder of urgency
Climbing a ladder of hope
Climbing a ladder of my emotions
Climbing a ladder of unraveling rope.
You see, what you want to see,
But I'm not, what you wanted, no I'm not.
I am only one thing, one thing I see,
One thing I feel.
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Climbing...
I am only one thing, one thing I see, one thing I feel
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Paula Cole performs "The Ladder", and this lyric page sits inside the Paula Cole catalog on LyroVerse.
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