Yes, this world is fleeting. 🥀 But is that a reason to make our lives a hard and bitter dust that hides its glow?⁠

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🎶 Lyrics from Dinah Washington's "This Bitter Earth,"⁠ set to Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight"

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This bitter earth⁠

Well, what a fruit it bears.⁠

What good is love,⁠

That no one shares?⁠

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And if my life is like the dust⁠

That hides the glow of a rose,⁠

What good am I?⁠

Heaven only knows.⁠

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Lord, this bitter earth⁠

Yes, can be so cold.⁠

Today you're young⁠

Too soon, you're old.⁠

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But while a voice within me cries,⁠

I'm sure someone may answer my call.⁠

And this bitter earth⁠

May not be so bitter after all.⁠