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Draw the curtain, look, you're only sleeping |
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Or is this only what the other you is dreaming? |
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Either way |
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Hard to take |
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Ashen features unmistakably your own |
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Familiar posture, recast in skin and bone |
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Person from today |
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Here is you in 2082 |
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Remove your helmet, first equalize the pressure |
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No, but first, take readings to be sure |
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The atmosphere is safe |
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Yes, it's safe |
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As the ancient one cranes his neck to look |
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You see his hand's been replaced with a hook |
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But it's clear you're very much alive |
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It's 2105 |
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No, it's 2240 |
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No, it's 3415 |
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How can you still be living? |
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What does this mean? |
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You must honor and respect the older fellow |
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Even as you suffocate him with his pillow |
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Though you're strong |
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He was wise |
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There is much you can learn from the sage |
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And though you'll leave and travel back to your own age |
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You will meet again, you two |
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In 2082 |
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What was the look he gave intended to convey? |
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Was there something else he was trying to say? |
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It will all be revealed to you |
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In 2082 |
