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From hotels in the middle of the night |
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I'm calling you out |
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To candles cling tentative flames |
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But they burn just the same |
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Just in case you forget |
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Sick in the silt of the strangest taste |
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I've hated today |
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Still something sings within the vein |
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I forget to fail |
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I forget to complain |
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How much more can we stand to stay |
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Before clouds complain |
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Soaked to that critical stage |
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With the overdressed words |
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Of the well-meaning vague |
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How much will the Leitmotiv sway |
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To compensate for our fallow-yet-vigorous play |
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On this century's take |
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On the lived-but-yet-named |
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Hold out, hold out |
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Because this moon is twice as good |
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When you see through a year of nights |
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What you thought you understood |
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Set out, set out |
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Because this haze is bound to wane |
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It can no longer pretend to hide |
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The will of third-class seats on tomorrow's trains |