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Lying on my bed, I was reading French |
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With the light too bright for my senses |
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From this hiding place life was way too much |
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It was loud and rough round the edges |
| [00:51] |
So I faced the wall when an old man called |
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Out of dreams that I would die there |
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But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings |
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You had a different idea |
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I was like a child, I was lying strong |
| [01:10] |
And my father lifted me up there |
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Took me to a place where they checked my body |
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My soul was floating in thin-air |
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I clung to the bed and I clung to the past |
| [01:26] |
I clung to the welcome darkness |
| [01:29] |
But at the end of the night there's a green green light |
| [01:34] |
The quiet before the madness |
| [01:37] |
There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell |
| [01:41] |
And she put out her arm, she touched me when I was in hell |
| [01:48] |
When I was in hell |
| [01:53] |
Someone sang a song and I sang along |
| [01:57] |
Cause I knew the words from my childhood |
| [02:01] |
Intellect ambition they fell away |
| [02:04] |
And they locked me up for my own good |
| [02:08] |
But I didn't mind, cause the silence was kind |
| [02:12] |
It spoke to me in whispers |
| [02:16] |
There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn |
| [02:19] |
And the quiet hum of business |
| [02:23] |
Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room |
| [02:27] |
I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing |
| [02:35] |
Know what you're doing |
| [03:10] |
Lying on my side you were half awake |
| [03:13] |
And your face was tired and crumpled |
| [03:18] |
If I had a camera I'd snap you now |
| [03:21] |
Cause there's beauty in every stumble |
| [03:25] |
We are out of practice we're out of sight |
| [03:29] |
On the edge of nobody's empire |
| [03:33] |
And if we live by books and we live by hope |
| [03:37] |
Does that make us targets for gunfire? |
| [03:41] |
Now I look at you, you're a mother of two |
| [03:45] |
You're a quiet revolution |
| [03:49] |
Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud |
| [03:53] |
For the people's emancipation |
| [03:56] |
Did I do okay, did I pave the way? |
| [04:01] |
Was I strong when you were wanting? |
| [04:04] |
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke |
| [04:08] |
Who was stern but never daunting |
| [04:12] |
And he told me to push and he made me feel well |
| [04:16] |
He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying |
| [04:23] |
Oh to the dying |
