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Oh Lord, we were dreaming |
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And the sign at the side of the road pointed to Mars |
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I didn't understand the meaning of the words she spoke |
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Like a James Bond movie but it looked too real |
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Way above the mountains on a one-way ride |
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Looking for a reason well we won't go there, we won't go there |
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We're under the umbrella of a different sky |
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Where a new storm gathers with the stakes too high |
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But we're standing on the shoulders of a great empire |
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And we ain't so perfect but we won't go there, we won't go there, we won't go there |
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I don't wanna be where the buildings break |
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And the young bones shatter and the fireman's tears |
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I don't wanna watch but I can't look away, 'cos it could have been you and it could have been me |
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How can you fly when you've got no wings and there's no escape from the burning flames? |
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Oh Lord, it's falling down |
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I understand the meaning as Vesuvius blows |
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And the Romans staring at the white hot snow |
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Give or take a day before it all came down |
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Try to get inside their heads but it won't compute, won't compute |
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As you ramble down the streets of an old Pompeii |
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We couldn't help feeling that it shouldn't be here |
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Fifteen hundred years they were digging it up |
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With the seeds all growing and the golden sun, the golden sun, the golden sun |
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I don't wanna be where the buildings break |
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And the young bones shatter and the firemen die |
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I don't wanna watch but I can't look away, 'cos it could have been you and it could have been me |
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How can you fly when you've got no wings and there's no escape from the burning flames? |
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Oh Lord, it's falling down |
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Oh Lord, we were dreaming |
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And the sign at the side of the road is burning down, down |
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In the summer light |
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I saw your face |
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And the summer's born to live |
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Chasing all the faces in the Northern lights |
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In the shadow of a mountain and the giant ice |
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Well you could feel small but she's standing tall |
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As you throw imagination at the farthest star, the farthest star |
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How could we be broken when we're all made up |
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Of the finest dust of the Universe? |
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Glowing brightly in the presence of a newborn smile |
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It's a grand illumination you could never describe, never describe, never describe |
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I don't wanna be where the buildings break |
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And the young bones shatter and the firemen die |
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I don't wanna watch but I can't look away, 'cos it could have been you and it could have been me |
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How can you fly when you've got no wings and there's no escape from the burning flames? |
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Oh Lord, it's falling down |
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Oh Lord, we were dreaming |
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And there isn't a sign of the road anymore |
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Did we drink too much wine, were we chipping away at the good will once left to us many a day? |
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Carelessly drifting like leaves on the water, no rudder to steer us back home |
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In the summer light I saw your smile |
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And the summer's born to live |
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Well you can't taste the wine |
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And you can't take my hand |
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'Cos the summer's born to give |
