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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Long way from my home 
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Sometimes I wish I could fly 
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Like a bird up in the sky 
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Oh, sometimes I wish I could fly 
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Fly like a bird up in the sky 
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Sometimes I wish I could fly 
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Like a bird up in the sky 
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Closer to my home 

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Motherless children have a hard time 
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Motherless children have-a such a hard time 
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Motherless children have such a really hard time 
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A long way from home 

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Sometimes I feel like freedom is near 
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Sometimes I feel like freedom is here 
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Sometimes I feel like freedom is so near 
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But we're so far from home 

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Baby, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
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Long way from my home 

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Sometimes I feel like it gets closer now 
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Sometimes I feel like the kingdom is at hand 
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Sometimes I feel like kingdom is now 
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But we're so far from home