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Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space |
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There's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face |
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Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in |
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And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins, it will begin |
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Splintered dreams of unity |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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So far from reality |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Independent trajectories |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Separate terms of equality |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
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Is there no redemption, no common good? |
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Is there nothing we can do for ourselves or only what we should? |
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Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide |
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Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide |
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They so divide |
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Side by side suffering loneliness |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Phony collective progress |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Accepting that it's all such a mess |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Gesturing without hope of redress |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
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Forging little plays of deception and pain |
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As we watch our foundation crumble away |
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Staggering like birds against a hurricane |
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And trying all the while to stay out of each other's way |
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Broken dreams of unity |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Independent trajectories |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Screaming out for understanding |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Turning inward and suffering |
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(Our lives are parallel) |
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Parallel, parallel, parallel, parallel, parallel, |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
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Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel |
