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Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now |
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Dumb: |
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What have we become? |
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What have we chosen to be? |
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Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of |
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Our name |
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Nothing can ever be the same: |
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Now the Immortals are here. |
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At the time it seemed a reasonable course |
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To harness all the force |
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Of life without the threat of death, |
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But soon we found that boredom and inertia |
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Are not negative, but all the law we know, |
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And dead are will and words like survival. |
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Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and |
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All end... |
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Why do I pretend? |
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Our essence is distilled |
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And all familiar taste is now drained, |
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And though purity is maintained |
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It leaves us sterile, |
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Living through the millions of years, |
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A laugh as close as any tear; |
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Living, if you claim that all |
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That entails is breathing, eating, defecating, |
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Screwing, drinking, |
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Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down |
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And ultimately passing away time |
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Which no longer has any meaning. |
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Take away the threat of death and all you're |
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Left with is a round of make-believe. |
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Marshal every sullen breath and though you're |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy |
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It's still the ring by which you hope to be |
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Engaged |
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To marry the girl who will give you forever |
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It's crazy, and plainly |
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That simply is not enough. |
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What is the dullest and bluntest of pains, |
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Such that my eyes never close without feeling it |
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There? |
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What abject despair demands an end |
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To all things of infinity? |
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If we have gained, how do we now meet the |
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Cost? |
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What have we bargained, and what have we |
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Lost? |
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What have we relinquished, never even knowing it |
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Was there? |
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What thoughts now of holding fast the line, |
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Defying death and time? |
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Everything we had is gone, |
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Everything we laboured for and favoured more |
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Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring |
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Of false hope and false deliverance. |
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But now the nuptial bed is made, |
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The dowry has been paid: |
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The toothless, haggard features of eternity |
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Now welcome me between the sheets |
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To couple with her withered body - my wife. |
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Hers forever, |
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Hers forever, |
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Hers forever |
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In still life. |