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in the beginning
the earth was shapeless and void
you said once
you saw Him in a dream
a dream that you dreamt long ago
i met your dream
on a walk at 18000 feet
in the clouds below stella point
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when i woke up
you said to me
to go outside
go to the beach
and from the beach
stretched piles of stone
you said to me
that's where you go
and so i went
along that stone
I could not see
the clouds were low
I cut my skin
i slipped and fell
the rocks were wet
my feet were bare
but at the end
between the moss
there was my gift
that pool of stars
and all the sky
i'd ever seen
was lying there
down at my feet
and there i sat
alone and free
my only prayer
you speak to me
that's when I dropped
right off the edge
into the world they don't understand
you're crushing sky
i'm snapping twig
you're storming waves
i'm breath of mist
you give me fear
that holy fear
i'm letting go
i'm letting go
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lately I've
been wondering
about the type of purity that sorrow brings
late at night
i'm suffering
to understand the truth
it's like you always want the same thing too
i only ever worry when i worry about you
but you had to keep on talking so
the next thing is I'm jogging
down trapelo at a quarter past two in the morning
so why a book of words
when you don't talk in people terms
just another night i'm spending
counting up if one and one is two
don't know what I'm gonna do
slowly I'm
uncovering
a language that a progress has been plundering
poorly I'm
recovering
from this act of war
it's like can't we have the same dreams too
i only ever question when i'm questioning you
can't it be the bright lights bass dropping
do the dance single topping picture that you handed me to view
but every night I'm up again
i've been this way since college
and my heart is only holding on to you
don't know what I'm gonna do
because all i really want is you
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if everyone were doctors
03:00
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if everyone were doctors
there would be no one to heal
if everyone were lawyers
there would be no case to hear
if everyone were actors
then who would build the stage
i'll love you anyway
i'll love you any way
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why'd you give your gold
03:27
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a summer dusk
the sun is hot
the stadium
a crowded clot
the city out to see the racing day
the ladies fan their pasted face
the men bet on the final race as
anxious fingers fumble through the bills
the horses line up at the gate
the jockeys told to take their place
the shot is fired
and off and off they go
the inner lane, the pride and joy
jockey rode him as a boy
many men bet he would win that day
for laps and laps and laps they flew
their muscles rippled, all they knew
was blood and toil prepared them for this race
the crowd it roared
the jockeys screamed
the horses sweat
their eyes they gleamed
they whip and grasp and reach and spit and grind
and finally
through all the fray
emerged the favorite of the day
the final lap approached and so it led
as they round the final bend
just about to cross the line
it turned around and ran the other way
it hangs a right
and leaps the gate
it clears the door
to run away
and down the streets
it runs, it runs, it runs
and when it cleared the city lights
the day had faded into night
it came upon an overlooking hill
and as it gazed into the stars
the news arrived in all their cars
and all they had to say
--
why'd you give your gold
for a glimpse at the moon?
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remember when we used to dream
of flying cars
and color screens
over skies of blue
and parks of green
we're living in the future now
the monuments are white
and the roads are so clean
trains above the street
pictures everywhere I see
all I thought could not be done
is now resting in my hand
do you remember how it happened so fast?
we're living in the future now
i see a large square box
it's the wealth of all men
it sits in perfect beauty
in the center of the town
its symmetry is silver
and the walls are only glass
it houses all the gold of years past
we're living in the future now
i see a leopard in the box
but he's thrashing all around
he shatters all the glass and steel
all the gold is scattered around
as his fury takes it down
and his tail is curled in power you can feel
we're living in the future now
now we're riding through the clouds
on an american beast
and we're flying towards a mountain that stands holy in the east
and I know when we collide
it will be the final end
and it's time to say goodbye
there is nothing after this
and our bodies will fold
as we dissolve into the sky
and in my dream you're blind
but I'm just crying and crying and crying because I know it's truly the end of all time
we're living in the future now
sit and tell me rome
saw its own demise
that they saw their glory fading with their eyes
if a prophecy is real
how does it make you feel?
if our dreams become real
and we're living in the future now?
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