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(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth)
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There was a boy who came into this world at the hands of a holy woman in a holy place
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He wore a red coat and walked a bulldog-saw them reflected in the mirror of the lakes
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Lived in the shadow of the mountains with the smells of disinfectant, dusty old leather and the polished wood of his bed
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No more than a baby feeding swans on the river holding the hands of his mother, and the wax paperbag of yesterdays bread
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And his father on the other side of the world
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On the ships railings and some far away tide
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With the silent dry tear of home thoughts from abroad in his far away eyes
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In his far away eyes
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The smell of the wax on the wooden floor
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Mixture of polish and soap
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No children to fear or to play with
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Rows of empty hooks for the coats
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An upright piano and the boys in the choir
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Still remind him of just before he was born
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Remind him of just before he was breathing
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Strange misty visions of God
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Turn the cities into families
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Into villages of souls
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Hovering in the air while theyâ"š¬â"ž¢re sleeping
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With their houses invisible
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Running as fast as I could run
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Send to me the ghosts of Christmas
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Whispering: "Youâ"š¬â"ž¢re the only one"
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And ever since I was a boy
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I never felt that I belonged
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Like everything they did to me
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Was an experiment to see
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How I would cope with the illusion
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In which direction would I jump
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Would I do it all the same
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As the actors in the game
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Or would I spit it back at them
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And not get caught up in their rules
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And live according to my own
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And not be used, and not be used
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To find the fundamental truths
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It was going to take some time
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Thirty five summers down the line
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The wisdom of each passing year
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Seems to serve only to confuse
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Seems to serve only to confuse
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Daddy came out the navy and took us away to his dirty gray home town
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And he worked down on a coal mine for National Service so that he could be around
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There was a magical purple in the chrome of the exhaust of his triumph motor bike
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And a warmth of oil and metal and the thrill of the hard corner holding tight
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From the horizon
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Came home from the navy to the mine
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From the horizon
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To buried alive
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Took his dream underground
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Buried his treasure in his far away eyes
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And one day as the boy lay sleeping in the sunshine of a half remembered afternoon
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A cloud of bees with no particular aim, and no brain
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Found the boy, decided that his time had come
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Came down out of the sky
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Stung him in the face
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Again and again
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Blue pain
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Screaming like baptism
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Intraveinous, Jesus
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Like being chosen
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Something with no brain
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Blue pain from something with no brain
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I canâ"š¬â"ž¢t explain
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Itâ"š¬â"ž¢s happening again
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Oh mummy, daddy, will you sit a while with me
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Oh mummy, daddy, will you jog my memory
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Tell me tall tales of Montego Bay, Table mountain, Flying fish, Banana spiders, Pots of paint
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And the sun on the equator
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Setting like an ember thrown to deep water
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From crimson to black
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But coming back
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Tomorrow on the horizon
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The blue pain
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Fades to a point where it doesnâ"š¬â"ž¢t fade
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It stayed
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Blue
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Stirred his red coat heart to this strange engine
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This love
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This love
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This inconvenient, blind, blood-diamond
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This puzzle
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This love
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This blind
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Blood-diamond
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This puzzle
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I donâ"š¬â"ž¢t understand
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That knows no faith
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And tries and fails
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And tries again
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Stares at the sea
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The nightâ"š¬â"ž¢s dark deep
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For one last time
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And bleeds
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And bleeds
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And dies for you
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And lies
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And is to blame
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And is ashamed
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And is not the same
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This truth
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This truth
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This truth
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This truth
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And lies
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And is to blame
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And is ashamed
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And is true
Marillion - This Strange Engine
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