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As fireworks burst over the land |
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I could've sworn |
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I felt the influence of an unseen hand |
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The ghost of someone else's dream |
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A forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene |
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And the lights were complicated and so we all just |
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Prayed to the spirits above and below |
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That the water would never reach us in time |
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But I had a feeling that we'd never get to two thousand nine |
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Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah |
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We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking |
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Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through |
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The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping |
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There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim |
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There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning |
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And now's as good as any as a time and place to begin |
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On TV, they said the storms wouldn't last |
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But their answers didn't correlate to the questions we'd asked |
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They said, "A spark that's gone is not a spark to mournYou can't resuscitate a person who was never born" |
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So I climbed to the tallest building in town |
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To see the rain rushing in, to feel my heart breaking down |
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And as the blue sheen drew nearer |
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I saw a window to another world |
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Strange fish |
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I'd never seen and in that moment |
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I realized |
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Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming |
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We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking |
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Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through |
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The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping |
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There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim |
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There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning |
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Now's as good as any as a time and place to begin |
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I should have known this was coming, yeah |
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It could not have been more obvious |
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Like the flood that |
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Noah dreamed about |
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Except bigger and more ominous |
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I should have seen this was unfolding, yeah |
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It could not have been more obvious |
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Like the flood that |
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Noah dreamed about |
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Except bigger and more ominous |
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Every moment lost someone else has won |
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Every time you breathe there's another gone |
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Every passing second is a minute late |
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Every breath can escalate a hurricane |
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And do you think we'd realize just what we'd done |
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Tore down the canvas that held up the sun? |
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We ripped down the canvas hung up above |
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But what if we were created to gaze |
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What if we were created to gaze at the stars up above? |
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Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah |
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We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking |
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Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through |
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The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping |
