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Vienna Teng - In Another Life |
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in another life |
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you and I worked West Virginia coal mines |
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side by side |
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collecting the black dust like sin |
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the day the main shaft caved in |
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I caught your eye |
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as the lantern light guttered out |
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and the afterdamp swallowed us slowly |
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I gripped your hand |
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and caught a glance of the next time 'round |
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in another life |
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you and I were Red Guards in training |
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side by side |
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we marched on Tiananmen |
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turned our own parents in for hoarding rice |
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and in the Great Leap forward |
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we crawled on our bellies and died |
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a blood orange sky |
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gave a cry of next time 'round |
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in another life |
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I was married at thirteen |
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you were killed at twenty-one |
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on a minor battlefield |
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I was buried beside my second stillborn child |
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my last thought it seemed |
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a fever dream |
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now we sink into a summer afternoon |
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Central Park in June |
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marveling at the bounty our days contain |
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and we feel it like the shiver |
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of a passing train |
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that other life |
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deep underground |
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you and I |
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side by side |
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we are the next time 'round |
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