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(Hammill)
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Lacking sleep and food and vision
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Here I am again, encamped upon your floor,
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Craving sanctuary and nourishment,
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Encouragement and sanctity and more.
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The streets seemed very crowded,
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I put on my bravest guise-
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I know you know that I am acting,
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I can see it in your eyes.
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In the harsh light of freedom I know
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That I cannot deny that I have wasted time,
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Have frittered it away in idle boasts
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Of my freedom and fidelity,
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When simpler words would have profited me
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Most...
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...it isn't enough in the end, when I'm looking
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For hope.
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Though the organ-monkey screams
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As the pipes begin to spit
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Still he'll go through the dance routines
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Just as long as he thinks they'll fit,
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Just as long as he knows that it's dance, smile-
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Or quit.
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Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune
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When all of these years I've longed to lie with you,
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I've bogged myself down in the web of talk,
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Quack philosophy and sophistry-
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At physiciality I've always baulked,
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Like the man in the chair who believes it's
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Beyond him to walk.
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I've been hiding behind words,
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Fearing a deeper flame exists,
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Faintly aware of the passage
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Of opportunities I have missed.
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But the nearness and the smell of you,
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La Rossa from head to toe...
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I don't know what I'm telling you,
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But I think you ought to know
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Soon the dam wall will break, soon the water
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Will flow.
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Though the organ-monkey groans
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As the organ-grinder plays
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He's hoping, at the most,
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For an end to his dancing days;
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Still he hops up and down on his perch
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In the usual jerky way.
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Though it might mean an end to all friendship
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There's something I'm working up to say.
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Think of me what you will;
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I know that you think you feel my pain-
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No matter if that's just the surface.
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If we made love now would that change all
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That ahs gone before?
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Of course it would, there's no way it could ever
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Be the same...
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One more line crossed,
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One more mystery explained.
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Now I need more than just words, though
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The options are plain that lead from all
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Momentary action.
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If we make love now it will change all
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That is yet to be...
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Never could we agree in the same way again.
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One more world lost,
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One more heaven gained.
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La Rossa, you know me, you read me as though
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I am glass;
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Though I know it there's no no way in which I can
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Pass-
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Though it means that you'll finish my story
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At last I'd trade all the clever talk,
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The joking, the smoking and the quips,
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All the midnight conversations, all the friendship,
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All the words and all the trips
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For the warmth of your body,
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The more vivid touch of your lips.
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All bridges burning behind me,
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All safety beyond reach,
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The monkey feels his chains out blindly,
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Only to find himself released.
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Take me, take me now and hold me deep
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Inside your ocean body,
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Wash me as some flotsam to the shore,
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There leave me lying evermore!
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Drown me, drown me now and hold me down
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Before your naked hunger,
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Burn me at the altar of the night-
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Give me life!
Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa
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