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Four Pails
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Peter Hammill
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Four pails of water and a bag full of salts.
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That is all we are, that is all a man comprises,
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Chemicals alone, with no spirit, soul or ghost -
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Nothing so bizarre.
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No amount of faith disguises
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What is true is what we fear the most
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Nothing can survive
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Save the things men leave behind them.
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Any other case would be really too absurd -
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If thoughts remained alive
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Surely modern science would find them?
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No, the soul is nothing but a word.
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All the wonders Man achieves
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Emerge from cerebral tissue.
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Chemical reactions' ebb and surge
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Form that Thing that is you....
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It's a sad philosophy,
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But better sad than wrong.
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Face the truth instead:
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When you're dead you're dead,
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When you're gone you're gone...
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Now she's gone.
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Four pails of water and a bag full of salts.
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That is all she was, all my lover represented -
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That sounds just as mad as saying she will never die.
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Fools may clutch at straws
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But truth must not be circumvented:
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As the tree falls, so must that tree lie!
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Now that sounds so odd...
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Once I would have preached it brightly.
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Now questions appear I rationally can't ignore...
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Nothingness or God,
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Which of them seems more unlikely?
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Once I would have answered clearly,
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Now I only think I'm nearly sure.
PETER HAMMILL - Shingle Song (lyrics inc...
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