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Caught a train from Alexandria |
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Just a broken man in flight |
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Running scared with his devils |
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Saying prayers all through the night |
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Oh but mercy can't find him |
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Not in the shadows where he calls |
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Forsaking all his better angels |
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That's how every empire falls |
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The bells ring out on Sunday mornng |
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Like echoes from another time |
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All our innocence and yearning |
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And sense of wonder left behind |
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Oh gentle hearts remember |
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What was that story it Is lost |
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For when religion loses vision |
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That's how every empire falls. |
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He toasts his wife and all his family |
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The providence he brought to bear |
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They raise their glasses in his honor |
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Although this union they don't share |
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A man who lives among them |
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Was still a stranger to them all |
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For when the heart is never open |
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That's how every empire falls |
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Padlock the door and board the windows |
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Put the people in the street |
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"It's just my job," he says "I'm sorry." |
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And draws a check, goes home to eat |
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But at night he tells his woman |
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"I know I hide behind the laws." |
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She says, "You're only taking orders." |
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That's how every empire falls. |
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A bitter wind blows through the country |
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A hard rain falls on the sea |
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If terror comes without a warning |
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There must be something we don't see |
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What fire begets this fire |
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Like torches thrown into the straw |
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If no one asks, then no one answers |
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That's how every empire falls. |
