Governing Dynamics - A Traveler's Journal

from SpinTunes 19 Round 2 by Spintunes

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Source story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan

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Will any one stop
Though I am unknown
A nameless face
On a body bleeding out
By the side of the road
Phone has got no signal
Anyway I've got my fears
The help that comes
Might be as bad
As the ones who left me here

The van with the cross won't stop

Hours or minutes gone
I gave up and closed my eyes
Dreaming of the distant voices
Of those who passed me by

They're so sorry, still desert me
Better safe than showing mercy
Only giving what you'll be repaid for
When all that's asked of you is love your neighbor

Woke up in the hospital
With an aching in my bones
A stranger's scrawl on a notepad
"Couldn't leave you all alone

I know from my own travels
Sometimes the road unravels
So when your fight if finally won
Go forth, help the next one"

When vans with the cross won't stop
Shepherds of the lost you're not

They're so sorry, still desert me
Better safe than showing mercy
Only giving what you'll be repaid for
When all that's asked of you is love your neighbor

Go forth and help the next one
Mercy for the lost at any cost
Mercy for the lost at any cost
At any cost

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from SpinTunes 19 Round 2, released April 4, 2022

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