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1 - I STOPPED TO LISTEN, BUT he did not come... | 26 - SIT IN A CHAIR AND KEEP still... | |||
2 - WHEN I LEFT THE KING I began to rehearse... | 27 - ISRAEL, AND YOU WHO call yourself Israel... | |||
3 - I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING... | 28 - YOU WHO POUR MERCY INTO hell... | |||
4 - AFTER SEARCHING AMONG the words... | 29 - BLESS THE LORD, O MY soul... | |||
5 - 'LET ME REST,' HE CRIED... | 30 - HERE THE DESTRUCTION is subtle... | |||
6 - SIT DOWN, MASTER, ON this rude chair of praises... | 31 - WHEN I HAVE NOT RAGE... | |||
7 - I PUSHED MY BODY FROM one city to another... | 32 - WE CRY OUT FOR WHAT WE have lost... | |||
8 - IN THE EYES OF MEN HE falls... | 33 - YOU WHO QUESTION SOULS... | |||
9 - BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness... | 34 - YOU ARE WITH ME STILL. | |||
10 - YOU HAVE SWEETENED your word... | 35 - I TURNED YOU TO STONE... | |||
11 - HE CAME BACK FROM HIS prayer... | 36 - THOUGH I DON'T BELIEVE, I come to you now... | |||
12 - I DRAW ASIDE THE CURTAIN... | 37 - IT IS ALL AROUND ME, THE darkness... | |||
13 - FRIEND, WHEN YOU SPEAK this carefully... | 38 - AS MY FATHERS WROTE, AS my mothers spoke... | |||
14 - BLESSED ARE YOU WHO, among the numberless swept away in terror... | 39 - FROM YOU ALONE TO YOU alone... | |||
15 - THIS IS THE WAY WE SUMMON one another... | 40 - LET ME NOT PRETEND YOU are with me... | |||
16 - RETURN, SPIRIT, TO THIS lowly place... | 41 - I LOOK FAR, I FORGET YOU... | |||
17 - DID WE COME FOR NOTHING?... | 42 - IT IS TO YOU I TURN... | |||
18 - THEY KNOW ME AT THIS café... | 43 - HOLY IS YOUR NAME... | |||
19 - YOU LET ME SING, YOU lifted me up... | 44 - THE MEDITATIONS OF THE great are above me... | |||
20 - LIKE AN UNBORN INFANT swimming to be born... | 45 - NOT KNOWING WHERE TO go... | |||
21 - MY TEACHER GAVE ME what I do not need... | 46 - HELP ME IN THE RAIN... | |||
22 - YOUR CUNNING CHARLATAN is trying to whip up a frisson of grace... | 47 - MY SOUL FINDS ITS PLACE in the Name... | |||
23 - MY SISTER AND I BEING estranged... | 48 - AWAKEN ME, LORD, FROM the dream of despair... | |||
24 - IN THE THIN LIGHT of hunted pleasure... | 49 - ALL MY LIFE IS BROKEN unto you... | |||
25 - MY SON AND I LIVED IN A cave... | 50 - I LOST MY WAY... |
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