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Lying on our backs, on the cooling tarmac of a country road,
We watched the stars, we watched them fall.
And you made 36, I got as far as 49, before we laughed aloud
And raced back to the house again, with no idea at all
Of our own position in infinity.
Beware of the promises of songs
When you know the road ahead can be so long,
As we watched the stars that night
We had no more idea of our plight,
Than an earthworm beneath the tripod
Of the surveyor's theodolite

I'm standing on a stage in Sweden in the rain
But only see the sunlight from your face
It illuminates the faces that smile back from the crowd
We make the time, but you create the place
And the curtains are closing on this act of the play
Tomorrow it seems will be a different kind of day
Stay with me a while! Let me live this moment once or twice
Freeze Frame! Magnify! Do I see trouble in your eyes?
Have I just borne witness to the scars that you bear,
From my own pursuit of dreams that perhaps we don't share?
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Talk to me a while, I'd plead, knowing all was said and done,
And that words alone can't change things, not when the fighting's already begun,
We had a Utopian postcode and a Nirvanan phone,
But no-one was calling and we were left alone
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Lying to ourselves in the quiet slumber of a foreign town
We let it slide with no idea at all..
Of our own position in infinity.
Beware of the promises of songs
When the road ahead can be so long
And constructed poetic verse,
No matter how well-rehearsed
Can't fill in all the cavities
In the mouth that formed the curse

There's a kind of comfort in the whirring of a fan,
The dimmed studio lights and turning counters.
The soundproofing a barrier to the hostile world outside,
It can carry on without us
But out there it's changing by the instant
And I'm in here on my own.

I kid myself that you are in here with me,
And you're speaking through me now,
That everything I do in here's for “US” not just for me
But I never could quite explain how

The room is empty or the room is full
Inspiration comes and goes
But in the end we became each others tea-break
Togetherness was just supposed.
And inside I just never could see that
But out here it just seems so clear.

We've had so much of trading insults
Oaths and vows are useless, like before
Petty thoughts and skeletons in closets
Are lying all across our wooden floor
And nothing we believe is sacred in our massive quest to hurt.

Everything we're good at is in question
Everything we've achieved is in the mire
And all we have is bile and sick, the ending just can't come too quick
Everything created has to die
We rip ourselves apart and fall asleep exhausted by the strain
This is not a rehearsal, this is not a drill
Madness rides tonight, banners flying and it's for real
They get stronger, while we get weaker and no-one cares

We rip ourselves apart and fall asleep exhausted by the strain
This is not a rehearsal, this is not a drill
Madness rides tonight, banners flying and it's for real
They get stronger, while we get weaker and no-one cares

This is not a rehearsal, this is not a drill

I'm standing on a stage in England, blinded by the lights
Hard to even know you're there,
But inside I know the switches have been thrown in your mind
Just a question of when and where

And all of these years I took for granted,
come on back now and whisper in my ears
“I never thought twice
As blind as three mice”
But I never thought I'd be alone

It's time to bring the curtain down,
Time to say our final words,
I can feel it in my bones, I can feel it in my water

Traffic jams and French landscape flash by
Lost in a blur of deja vu
I can't keep my fingers off
The self destruct

And suddenly it's all

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