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Night closed in around us
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And we trimmed the lamps again
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Against the greatest darkness man had known
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A nation's grain was locked against the famine of another
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And hope was in the fast lane riding home
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They were roaring from their buildings
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Which were monuments to greed and fear
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And the science and logic that had failed
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And mines were merely silicon
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The aimless world had power to grasp the thunder
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And to dash it to the ground
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We were slow to come to anger
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We were slow to understand
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And we groped the words that might contain the rage
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And naked terror faded into shadows of despair
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Still we fought the rising madness of our age
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And we marched in tens of thousands
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While the cynics printed curses
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Because as usual they'd seen it all before
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And our freedom left us nothing
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But to turn to face to tyranny of silence
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Lest it blow away the dawn
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A dark and dreadful morning
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Of a limited exchange
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Force in motion made the planet reel
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The flash of sidelness wire ripped through avenues and highways
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And explosion breed explosion from within
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And the writhing earth in agony
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The bleeding smoking wasteland
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Where the winds sang songs of poison to the dawn
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And wondered while we waited
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If some beings out in space and time
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Were watching just another fading star
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Those who gained the shelters
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Where those who faced the judgement
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Of a pale and tragic sun upon our faces
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The crumbling ruins, the acid rain, the dull and dreary waiting
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The sickness and the anger and the pain
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And the broken flag poles won so proud
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Lay scattered on the cars and homes
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Friends of ours, we didn't even know
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And our memories closed upon a world
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That didn't see the morning
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And a cold wind blew to the corners of our souls
I was only 19
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