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At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent, |
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Is moved into action and their pace does not relent. |
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In step, with great precision, these dancers of the night |
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Advance against the darkness how implacable their might! |
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Eyes undulled by moon, their arms and legs akimbo, |
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They walk and live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo. |
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Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day, |
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Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away |
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Too far, too soon. |
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Senses dimmed in semi-sentience, only wheeling through this plane, |
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Only seeing fragmented images, prematurely curtailed by the brain, |
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But breathing, living, knowing in some measure at least |
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The soul which roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast. |
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From what tooth or claw does murder spring, |
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From what flesh and blood does passion? |
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Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing |
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In deadly but delicate fashion. |
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And every range of feeling is there in the dream |
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And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream; |
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The senses sting. |
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And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls |
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I only know the meaning of sight and that's all |
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And that's nothing. |
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The columns of the night advance, |
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Infectiously, their cryptic dance |
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Gathers converts to the fold |
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In time the whole raw world will pace these same steps |
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On into the same bitter end. |
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Somnolent muster now the dancing dead |
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Forsake the shelter of their secure beds, |
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Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread, |
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As if the ground they tread would give way |
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Beneath the solemn weight of their conception. |
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I'd search the hidden corners of all this world, |
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Make reason of the sensory whorl |
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If I only had time, |
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But soon the dream is ended. |
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Tonight, before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep |
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Do you question your surrender to the drop from Lover's Leap |
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Or does the anaesthetic darkness take hold on its very own? |
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Does your body rise in service with not one dissenting groan? |
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These waking dreams of life and death |
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In the mirror are twisted and buckled; |
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Lashes flicker, a catch of breath, |
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Skin whitening at the knuckles. |
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The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose |
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And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse |
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Not to rise again. |
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In the chorus of the night-time I belong |
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And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song |
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And in the end I, too, must pay the cost of this life. |
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If all is lost none is known |
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And how could we lose what we've never owned? |
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Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find, |
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Unravel all the mysteries of mind, |
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If I only had time, |
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If I only had time, |
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But soon my time is ended. |