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A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye |
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As we sailed to the world from an insular life |
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From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives |
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From the sun's red blooming |
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With a shadow on every life |
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And we laid in the dark through the thundering nights |
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And awoke to an ocean shimmering white |
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Where the hull scrapes on the silent ice |
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And the gulls on the frozen ropes |
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Oh, the lights on the floor let the audience rise |
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Let them file through the halls still assured in their lives |
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Until the sky shudders open impossibly wide |
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And the room glows in the sudden light |
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They are gone, they are gone for life |