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You're good to good people, you shrewdly work around the bad ones.
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You take the side of the down-and-out, but the stuck-up you take down a peg.
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Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness.
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I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences.
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What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it.
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