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Lacking sleep and food and vision |
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Here I am again, encamped upon your floor, |
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Craving sanctuary and nourishment, |
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Encouragement and sanctity and more. |
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The streets seemed very crowded, |
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I put on my bravest guise |
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I know you know that I am acting, |
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I can see it in your eyes. |
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In the harsh light of freedom I know |
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That I cannot deny that I have wasted time, |
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Have frittered it away in idle boasts |
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Of my freedom and fidelity, |
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When simpler words would have profited me |
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Most... |
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...it isn't enough in the end, when I'm looking |
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For hope. |
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Though the organ-monkey screams |
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As the pipes begin to spit |
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Still he'll go through the dance routines |
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Just as long as he thinks they'll fit, |
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Just as long as he knows that it's dance, smile |
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Or quit. |
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Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune |
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When all of these years I've longed to lie with you, |
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I've bogged myself down in the web of talk, |
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Quack philosophy and sophistry- |
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At physiciality I've always baulked, |
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Like the man in the chair who believes it's |
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Beyond him to walk. |
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I've been hiding behind words, |
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Fearing a deeper flame exists, |
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Faintly aware of the passage |
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Of opportunities I have missed. |
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But the nearness and the smell of you, |
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La Rossa from head to toe... |
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I don't know what I'm telling you, |
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But I think you ought to know |
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Soon the dam wall will break, soon the water |
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Will flow. |
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Though the organ-monkey groans |
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As the organ-grinder plays |
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He's hoping, at the most, |
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For an end to his dancing days; |
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Still he hops up and down on his perch |
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In the usual jerky way. |
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Though it might mean an end to all friendship |
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There's something I'm working up to say. |
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Think of me what you will; |
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I know that you think you feel my pain |
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No matter if that's just the surface. |
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If we made love now would that change all |
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That ahs gone before? |
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Of course it would, there's no way it could ever |
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Be the same... |
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One more line crossed, |
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One more mystery explained. |
| [04:56.51] |
Now I need more than just words, though |
| [05:03.29] |
The options are plain that lead from all |
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Momentary action. |
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If we make love now it will change all |
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That is yet to be... |
| [05:37.23] |
Never could we agree in the same way again. |
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One more world lost, |
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One more heaven gained. |
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La Rossa, you know me, you read me as though |
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I am glass; |
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Though I know it there's no no way in which I can |
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Pass |
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Though it means that you'll finish my story |
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At last I'd trade all the clever talk, |
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The joking, the smoking and the quips, |
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All the midnight conversations, all the friendship, |
| [07:04.79] |
All the words and all the trips |
| [07:08.51] |
For the warmth of your body, |
| [07:10.29] |
The more vivid touch of your lips. |
| [07:14.80] |
All bridges burning behind me, |
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All safety beyond reach, |
| [07:25.21] |
The monkey feels his chains out blindly, |
| [07:30.81] |
Only to find himself released. |
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Take me, take me now and hold me deep |
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Inside your ocean body, |
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Wash me as some flotsam to the shore, |
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There leave me lying evermore! |
| [07:54.07] |
Drown me, drown me now and hold me down |
| [07:57.35] |
Before your naked hunger, |
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Burn me at the altar of the night |
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Give me life! |
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Give me life! |
