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This is the moment that we come alive |
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I'm handing out the breath and the kiss |
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I'm electric with the snap and the crackle of creation |
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I'm mixing up the mud with the spit |
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So rise up |
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Brendan Behan and like a drunken |
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Lazarus Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky |
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Like crack crazed kings. |
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Voyager 2 where are you now |
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Looking back at home and weeping |
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Cold and alone in the dark void |
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Winding down and bleeping |
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Ever dimmer ever thinner |
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Feebly cheeping in the solar winds |
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I'll turn you up |
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Sail on sail on sail on |
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On past the howling storms |
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Through electric orange skies |
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And blinding methane rain |
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Sail on I'll turn you up |
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Never bring me down to earth again |
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Let me blaze a trail of glory across the sky |
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Let me traipse across it's golden high |
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Let me marvel in wonder and unfettered gaze |
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At the bigness and implausibility of being |
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Yes stretch out your hands into infinity you human things |
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Past blind moons and ice cream worlds |
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You hurl your metal ball of dull intelligence |
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And show us all our fragile grip |
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As we too track with you |
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Slower but no less insistent |
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Like the only fertile seed |
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In the barren vault of being |
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Sail on Hurtling towards the waiting tomb of empty worlds |
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Waiting for the final primary come of life |
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I'll turn you up |
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And I'm thinking big things |
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I'm thinking about mortality |
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I'm thinking it's a cheap price that we pay for existance |
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This is the moment that we come alive |
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This is the breath and this is the kiss |
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No we're in |
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Paris In the ball gowns |
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In the high heels |
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In the snow |
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And we're spinning round |
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Versailles in a |
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Volkswagen |
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Beetle That we'd hired for the day (At the cheap rate) |
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The room without the shower was cold again "Are we already middle-aged", she said |
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And I said "I feel nothing I feel like a jelly-fish", "Mabey it's the Portuguese Men-O-Pause", she joked |
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And she laughed her brittle head |
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And we went back to bed |
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And I've been thinking about these things |
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I've been thinking about |
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Voyager 2 |
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And this is the moment that we come alive. * |
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Taken from the album "Vegetarians of Love" * |
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Written by |
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Bob Geldof/ |
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Pete Briquette |
