[02:26.49]Here we are then  here we are
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[02:34.74]Notes from a suicide
[02:37.89]
[02:44.18]And he will never ever be
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[02:49.79]The Greatest Living Englishman
[02:54.15]
[03:09.79]It's such a melancholy blue
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[03:15.00]Or a grey of no significance
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[03:21.74]Plastic coated surfaces
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[03:27.25]A space to place his suitcase
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[03:32.53]As it's passed from A to B
[03:36.21]
[03:59.69]But it's such a melancholy blue
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[04:05.13]The curtains round the bed are drawn
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[04:10.39]Broadcast voices from the ward
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[04:15.69]The humming of machines hurt
[04:18.87]
[04:21.18]But there are distances between
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[04:28.88]Yes there are distances between
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[04:49.69]His aspirations visited him nightly
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[04:56.08]And amounted to so little
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[05:01.51]Too much self in his writing
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[05:07.56]Now he will never  ever be
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[05:13.39]The Greatest Living Englishman
[05:18.84]
[05:31.12]The engine shifts into second gear
[05:34.74]
[05:36.02]They're all aboard  accounted for
[05:39.98]
[05:40.95]It's a journey he must make alone
[05:44.79]
[05:46.36]The black sheep boy is leaving home
[05:51.20]
[05:56.06]It's been rehearsed a thousand times or more
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[06:02.04]He's well prepared of that he's sure
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[06:10.30]But still it's such a melancholy blue
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[06:17.42]As he erased a page of history
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[06:23.22]Much as he'd intended to
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[06:53.22]He wouldn't speak or show you he was happy
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[06:59.44]Though you'd meet him with your eyes
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[07:05.22]There was a wall that always stood between you
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[07:12.61]He'd shut himself outside
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[07:27.05]And the love that he engendered
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[07:31.46]Would never be enough
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[07:35.37]For him to feel alive
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[07:39.19]Warm and tender
[07:41.96]
[07:44.93]He'd shut himself outside
[07:48.45]
[08:08.33]Not a fake or a sham
[08:11.20]But dug in deep and fighting
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[08:16.57]The world could not embrace a man
[08:20.16]
[08:21.45]With so much self in his writing
[08:25.35]
[08:43.64]And he was never gonna be
[08:47.94]
[08:49.43]The Greatest Living Englishman
[08:54.04]
[08:57.66]He had ideas above his station
[09:01.21]
[09:03.89]Minor virtues go unmentioned
[09:08.32]
[09:15.92]Little England you fit like a straightjacket
[09:20.26]Hemmed by the genius of others
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[09:26.17]He said
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[09:28.49]To conquer the world is not to the trace
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[09:35.01]Remove even the shadow of the memory of your face
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[09:47.96]A grey of no significance