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Given things

The King of Grunge said he was going nowhere.

I heard the Joker laughing to the Queen.

"I left Shotgun Suzzie real handy.

In case he thinks it's all way to mean."

Looks like he want's to quit this living thing.

You see for him it ain't no given thing.

And the Joker he's used to winning.

Any game you'd ever choose to play.

There's no end and no beginning.

Just the Devil pullin' your rug away.

And he'll say, hey, there ya go now boy right there's a living thing.

You see it ain't so great, it ain't no giving thing.

You should see what I got, I got a lotta things.

But you gotta take what you want 'cause it's a taking thing.

It's a taking thing. It's not a giving thing. It's a taking thing.

In the midst of my complaining.

A little girl came walking up to me.

And though all around her it was raining.

Her smile was pure as could be.

And I say, Thank you Lord right here's a living thing.

I look in their eyes I see a lot of things.

I don't have a lot but I got given things.

So I don't need to see what you got, I got given things...

They're just the little things.

But They're living things.

And they're given things.

©1994 David D. Vande Velde