This Earth

[00:09.48]	In my life on Earth,
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[00:13.04]	The things I have invented have invented me.
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[00:19.97]	I've found my industry.
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[00:25.83]	And I am not alone,
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[00:29.59]	I've fashioned friends from precious scraps,
[00:33.46]	They hold the light, they bend to serve me,
[00:38.39]	Joking that they don't deserve me,
[00:42.63]	After days of craft and care
[00:46.13]	I lift a sword and slice the air,
[00:50.87]	Such has been my time upon this Earth,
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[00:58.68]	This Earth.
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[01:03.61]	When my wife returns,
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[01:07.28]	More beautiful than when she left the night before,
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[01:14.03]	I show her things I made.
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[01:20.13]	A filigree of ferns, diamond snowflakes, tears of gold,
[01:27.77]	She murmurs praise a small caress,
[01:31.96]	I smile to see her happiness.
[01:36.88]	Silver webs with sanded grain
[01:40.39]	That catch and hold real drops of rain,
[01:45.18]	Such has been my toil upon this Earth.
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[01:52.98]	This Earth.
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[01:57.85]	When I'm feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep,
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[02:06.21]	Then stand back and push a button, from a distance
[02:11.58]	Watch the earth explode.
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[02:22.13]	This Earth.
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[02:30.93]	I love this land of mortal men
[02:34.54]	They wake to know the fire again,
[02:39.42]	The things we make, the things we feel,
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[02:43.72]	Armor plates and molten steel,
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[02:47.89]	All of these inventions of the Earth.
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[02:55.61]	This Earth.
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