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 *   Title : NUMBER 9			*
 *  Artist : The Waiting		*
 *   Album : The Waiting [1997]		*
 * Written by Clark Leake		*
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   (Language: English)

NUMBER 9:
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-1-
Don't believe another song could ever change the world
Don't believe that little boys grow up to be little girls
Don't believe that wishing ever really made it so
Don't believe you love me, you don't tell me anymore
Don't believe that suicide could ever open up any door

-2-
Can't count on my lucky star, if I don't know where it's at
Can't count on my fingers, I've got more sense than than
Can't count on my money, it all goes to pay the rent
Can't count on philosophers if I don't know what they meant
There's a time for counting one by one
And time for counting what's been spent

  Chorus:
  Some people live their lives
  Like they're on number 9
  But I'm gonna be around
  For a long, long time

-3-
I see a stately temple standing in a trance
I see the saints of God breaking into dance
I see a band of angels running up and down the stairs
I see a thousand sparrows floating in the air
I see a love-sick Savior, and I can see the scars that He wears

  Chorus:
  Some people live their lives
  Like they're on number 9
  But I'm gonna be around
  For a long, long time

 I don't wanna live my life
 In an endless nursery rhyme
 For I'm gonna be around
 For a long, long time

  (Chorus)

Band's Song Description:
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> Explains Clark, "This song used to be 
> called `Long Time' and it's funny, because
> a couple of people in the recording 
> process wrote `Number 9' down as the
> working title. They would say things like, 
> `Well, I mixed number nine today.' And
> before we knew it, that caught on and 
> that's how we came to know the song. We
> even thought about putting it as the ninth 
> song on the record, but it didn't work out
> that way. Thematically, the song echoes a 
> feeling of security in the Lord."