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Farewell to a Percival
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Simon Joyner
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So you planned to chip away at trouble
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but it left you standing in the rubble
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Now your tears are trapped in crystal puddles
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with a stone portrait of your double
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And if you begged me to remain around
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would grief keep tearing at your gown
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All the sadness waltzing around your frown
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Well, it's bound to bring some ceilings down
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Now there ain't no reason my heart will hear
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so you can shed the pickax and climbing gear
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but please don't stand and watch my back disappear
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as I fade into the mountains there
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Whose to say the sky is mean
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if it stands between you and your kingdom?
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They say some things are meant to be seen
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and some things are meant to be kept hidden
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All those saints who feed on virtue are ruthless
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saying you need a deed to be so virtuous
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And guilt is vainly plainly discouraged
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as we kow-tow to their courage
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But I saw the glorious white arch fall
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and the great soldier children were crushed and all
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the townspeople looked and saw their shadows
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and then had to stay inside and drain their pillows
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Then I had a dream seven nights in a row
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you were following me through all these doomed places I go
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Well I knew I was weak but I guess I didn't know
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I was in need of a guardian angel
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Whose to say the sky is mean
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if it stands between you and your kingdom?
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They say some things are meant to be seen
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and some things are meant to be kept hidden
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The river I follow has turned so small
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I can't hardly swallow any strength at all
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And the pale fish rotting in its muddy walls
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I know they lost their eyes before they stalled
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So I search and I yearn and I barely breathe
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and the person who once knew you is no longer me
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With my torn yellow map and my dry canteen
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I can't stop to count my blessings
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Or the curved lines of longitude
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I burned as if they were fuses
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to pass the mirage and land the oasis
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where I'm going to fill up all these empty spaces
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Whose to say the sky is mean
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if it stands between you and your kingdom?
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They say some things are meant to be seen
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and some things are meant to be kept hidden
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To pass the mirage and land the oasis
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where I'm going to fill up all these empty spaces
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and free myself of these earthly races
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I'll send you my thirst first and then the laces
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of my shoes
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