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Belle And Sebastian
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Lying on my bed, I was reading French
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With the light too bright for my senses
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From this hiding place life was way too much
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It was loud and rough round the edges
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So I faced the wall when an old man called
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Out of dreams that I would die there
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But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
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You had a different idea
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I was like a child, I was lying strong
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And my father lifted me up there
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Took me to a place where they checked my body
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My soul was floating in thin-air
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I clung to the bed and I clung to the past
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I clung to the welcome darkness
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But at the end of the night there's a green green light
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The quiet before the madness
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There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
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And she put out her arm,
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she touched me when I was in hell
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When I was in hell
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Someone sang a song and I sang along
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Cause I knew the words from my childhood
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Intellect ambition they fell away
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And they locked me up for my own good
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But I didn't mind, cause the silence was kind
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It spoke to me in whispers
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There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn
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And the quiet hum of business
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Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room
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I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing
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Know what you're doing
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Lying on my side you were half awake
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And your face was tired and crumpled
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If I had a camera I'd snap you now
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Cause there's beauty in every stumble
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We are out of practice we're out of sight
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On the edge of nobody's empire
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And if we live by books and we live by hope
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Does that make us targets for gunfire?
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Now I look at you, you're a mother of two
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You're a quiet revolution
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Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud
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For the people's emancipation
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Did I do okay, did I pave the way?
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Was I strong when you were wanting?
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I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
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Who was stern but never daunting
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And he told me to push and he made me feel well
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He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying
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Oh to the dying
Belle & Sebastian 'Nobody's Empire'
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