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Up through the ashes you rose |
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Leaving her forever purer than before |
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All of her goodness enclosed |
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With an ever-burning red volcanic glow |
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From your honest eyes, I stole |
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And I've forsaken you, and I amount to nothing |
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Still up these rivers we'll row |
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Far away along, fish in flow forever |
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I fly around the earth |
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Fluttering along, humming like a swallow |
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I sing their long eyes to sleep |
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But their applause leaves me blank and hollow |
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The ocean beneath me is loneliness |
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The cities all are one, |
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Repeating and repeating |
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The haunted rustling of leaves |
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Screeching 'cross the porch, |
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Raindrops pluck the windows |
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I pull myself underneath |
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Her warm soft blankets |
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This Australian winter |