“And I shall search my soul,
I shall search my very soul,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion inside me.”

— Van Morrison

Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

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Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

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