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(somber music)

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- As an artist, I can visualize it,

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seeing you know, this just
ray of light come down on me

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in this darkness, and lift me back up.

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(somber music)

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I was healthy, fit, living in Nevada

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ans discovered that I had
a third degree heart block,

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and I needed a pacemaker.

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(somber music)

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I saw myself, I could feel myself sinking

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into this darkness, this despair.

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(somber music)

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It was a relationship with
a colleague that I had.

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That they were always there for me,

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a voice of calmness and reason.

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(somber music)

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I look at my struggles as a gift,

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and I don't ever want someone to feel

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like they're alone in that darkness.

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So, that's really a driver
for me in what I do now.