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(I. ...And the earth wept) |
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I tuck you in ever so gently |
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Still you cried and turned from me |
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You stepped on my heart |
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I forgave just like mothers do |
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From under your shoes I still carried you |
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Soon my body will burn into ashes and dust |
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And rain will turn all that glitters to rust |
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One last pill for the pain |
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Sit down let me explain... |
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Why my bruises stay |
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My child I know you never meant to... |
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These scars just won't fade away |
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and I'm sure you never knew |
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I give up, I give in |
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Help December let a new year begin |
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Take what's left |
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And move on |
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Fly away |
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Be gone... |
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(II. Poisoned Land |
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[Instrumental]) |
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(III. Leaving home) |
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The morrow winds blow and herald a time |
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when man will be damned for all his crime |
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We all were too bold, now we all can see |
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how the lifegiver's bleeding to death before me |
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I am packing my bags, I', waiting in line |
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This tragedy forces us away from this land |
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As I board this creature of steel, |
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I kiss her good bye, give her time to heal |
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(IV. Take-off) |
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Loud sirens wail to send a |
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goldonder towards the light |
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Leaving the ground we bathe in starlight, |
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while heading for oceans of night |
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Safe in Aniara's warm and tender care we ride |
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Eight thousand hearts that fled the fires |
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for a life at a distant home |
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(V. A Turn for the worse) |
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A swerve to clear the Hondo stone |
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(Now we proclaim it known) |
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took us off course came too wide of Mars to |
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turn back home |
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There's no turning back, guiding units broke |
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and cracked |
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We will never win this game |
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From pledges and bonds, our system of suns |
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locked down its vaulted gateway |
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In thousands of years ram through the final frontier |
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The Lyre greets us there |
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Our ship at drift into the void |
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Through nothingness deployed |
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With an empty stare become aware |
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-our lives destroyed |
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Fears are hard to hide, praying as denial subsides |
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We can never win this game |
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From pledges and bonds, our system of suns |
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locked down its vaulted gateway |
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In thousands of years ram through the final frontier |
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A moth to a flame |
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(VI. A new balance) |
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Glass-like is the stare encircling us |
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The systems of stars hang frozen still |
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...a gaze through the window |
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Six years down the line we still feign dawn and sunset |
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but space no light will spawn |
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...eternally darker |
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Now setting sails, |
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but never know the worlds she's treading |
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where the life belongs |
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Mima lead the way; |
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Shine your light, be the beacon of hope at night, |
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be our guide, I need what you're doing to me |
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Shine your light, blind us when reality bites |
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We so need the magic she does |
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I asked me a question, -no reply |
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I dreamt me a life and live a lie |
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...dream me a nightmare |
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I traveled the stars but passed them by, |
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for trapped on Aniara here was |
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...always been leaving |
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We sit and stare, |
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at all the marvels that she brings us |
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Lights the life in you |
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Mima lead the way; |
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Shin your light, be the beacon of hope at night |
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Perfect grace in the barren house of space |
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Shine your light, blind us when reality bites |
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Mima, save us from seeing ourselves |
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(VII.Death of the Goddesses) |
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Inside the Mima's eyes, we lived our lives |
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Then like an arrow through this jest |
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destiny sent us a greeting from home, let us see: |
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-We have no home anymore |
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While Mima showed the final war |
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her circuits bled and fried as our mother died |
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She's darkened by our sin, |
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we begin to realize it |
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When I saw home so blue, be torn in two |
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all by the hands of her own child |
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Humanity, -the festering cancer that |
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dug her own grave |
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We have no home anymore |
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While Mima showed the final war |
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her circuits bled and fried, -seems she too will die |
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-Our haven's dying |
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I couldn't stop them if I tried |
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As they all rushed to see her die |
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Chaos, panic, people fight |
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I can't see, I will not, I won't |
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Our way of life is overthrown |
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Is there really no way? Let us turn back time. |
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(VIII. The age of confusion: Despair) |
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In the deafening silence people mourn, |
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we've cried us a river |
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Who knows where all laughter be? |
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On whom we place the blame? |
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Her demise was theirs! |
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Stained by their disease her screen recedes |
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Our real eyes realized |
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they beguile us all with their minds |
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(IX. The age of confusion: Lust) |
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Our lusting flesh and piety, |
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all coexist in the mist |
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Put aside your chastity |
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unveiling skin, magical sin |
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Controls the pile of heaving flesh, |
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a twisted queen; |
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"sleep with me and work the loins |
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The mind will stray, yield to life" |
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(X. The age of confusion: Reason) |
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And as the orgies all fade |
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and lust no longer attracts |
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then the brain will subdue the flesh, |
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put the focus on facts |
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Human brain was a shameful part, |
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low names were high for loins and for breast |
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Us Hades may harvest, |
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fully at its behest |
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(XI. The aftermath) |
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I still cry and I still miss her |
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I was just a little boy |
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running through the endless garden of our home |
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Away -some say never, ever |
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we'll leave this god forsake place |
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and ten thousand shivers |
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remain as we part |
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We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion |
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We paint no rainbows in the dark |
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No one will ever see us fade away |
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O for so long, I was the wielder of illusions |
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Our goddess gave in when she saw |
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that we had killed the earth and burst to flames |
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Every smile on every face |
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fell and crashed onto the floor |
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All alone in the world crying desperately |
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Away -some say never, ever we'll leave this god forsaken place |
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and ten thousand shivers |
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remain as we part |
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We're holding on, within our cradle of confusion |
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We paint no rainbows in the dark |
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No one will ever see us fade away |
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Oh for so long, I was the wielder of illusions |
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but there's no hiding what we are |
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We are the plague of all, |
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-for humanity there is no cure |
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God and Satan hand in hand |
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through this badland |
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took a flight uphill and down from man, |
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a king with with ashen crown |
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(XII. Dining on ashes) |
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What we reap is what we sow |
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Naked our truth smugly glows |
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We leave all games behind, because; |
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It took twenty years to come and go |
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Then only did we all know |
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and see how wrinkled and jaded we had grown |
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Looking out the window |
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but there's nothing new |
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Only darkness stares at you |
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I would die to see the rain below the rainbow, |
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just like others do |
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We crown the skies with our tiara; |
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-the life and fate of Aniara |
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We write an endless symphony |
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Now thousands were weeping |
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and hundreds cried in dismay; |
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-Twenty years today! |
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Repenting sinners pray |
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Easy come and easy go, |
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We could have had it all you know |
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Man's final day is here |
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Search for silver dig for gold |
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His desires now untold |
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Looking out the window, |
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all that he can see; |
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his own reflection's final plea; |
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"I would die to see the rain below the rainbow, |
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just like others do" |
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We crown the skies with our tiara; |
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-the life and fate of Aniara |
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We write an endless symphony |
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Now thousands were weeping |
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and hundreds cried in dismay; |
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-Twenty years today! |
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Repenting sinners will wither and fade |
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(XIII. The curtain falls) |
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Gladness fleeting, by whims and luck |
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-That is the way of life |
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Looking, searching our hearts |
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to find the "why" of it all |
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Finding no way to our home |
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See, in silence we faded. Our great escape; |
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-twenty four years inside |
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Looking, searching our ship |
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for life but just dust |
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falls on the graves of all |
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The halls of our ship now are void of all but death |
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Our lives have passed, |
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our hearts were broken by the endless dark |
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Our new paradise, |
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the one to replace the one we burned so bad |
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The god we hoped for left profaned, |
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all wounded and forlorn on the home we scarred |
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Now here I stand, my dear, |
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one heart still beats... |
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I bid you farewell, |
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the curtain will now descend |
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Somewhere in time we were living |
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-remember us then! |
