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"Up, M'Lady - Pack your things, this place is not your home. |
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Nor was it ever, sever every tie, tonight we ride. Tonight we ride." |
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Tonight we ride. |
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"And how we've trembled at the way that time's |
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Assembled little fires of desire in the tundra of our skin. |
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So, do yourself a little favor, savor every time you waver |
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For that shaking in my voice was only slyly feigned chagrin. |
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Tonight we ride." |
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Tonight we ride. |
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"Oh, Lover, uncover. I know it's warm beneath your sheets |
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And there is ice along the streets but listen-Lover, we will recover. |
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But we've no time to waste with meddling in affairs |
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We've locked so tightly in our dreams. |
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We are not clean, we are not pure, we will not rest until we're sure. |
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So, rob your pretty little eyes of sleep's disguise. |
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I'm at your bedside with a bucket full of lies. |
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So, clear your ears and listen - |
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Up, M'Lady - Pack your things, this place is not your home. |
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And I know what is." |
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And to the glorious past: |
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You've opened my window but broken the glass. |
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And I beseech thee, 'shed thy beauty.' |
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For as a child leaves the womb and learns the cold, |
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You have taught us peril in the present, |
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And you will bring us peril in our surely-soon-will-be. Unless... |
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The river's not flooded this time. |
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Oh, Precious Distance, |
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Oh, Precious Pain, |
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You've given me a name. |
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And etched it in the stones of the river bank. |
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Oh, Precious Distance, |
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Oh, Precious Pain, |
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You've given us a name. |
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You've given us a name. |
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"Rise!" Said the King to the River, |
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"Never let up! No, bring us a flood and bring it hard!" |
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"Freeze!" Said the Wind to the Water, |
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"Never give in! No, build us a bridge! |
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And build it strong and angry. |
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Let it stills the King's decrees. |
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Oh, you must contemplate the current, |
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Boy, and command that coward cease. |
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The boy breathes for his love says, 'I wait.' |
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His love says, 'I wait.' |
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She's shouting out, "I will come back. Yes, I will come back! |
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And I will come-I have lived my life so uncomfortably. Darling, come for me. |
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Come for me." |
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"Rise!" Said the Boy to his Lover, |
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"Darling, get up. I've brought you my love, and brought it far!" |
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"Leave!" Said the Girl to her lover, |
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"I've given in. If love is a bridge, we built it wrong!" |
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Curb your anger. |
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Still your fists. |
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She will never come back, she'll never come back, she'll never come- |
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Never come back, she'll never come back, she'll never come- |
