Intro
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Three dozen cycles, give or take a sum,
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The sum of that experience - how to keep running.
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O I know justice, it's a birthright if you're born right,
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and I know how handsome is that trick of the light,
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So don't be mistaken in thinking I'll do right
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given the chance to do wrong again and again.
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Summer romeos casing the park,
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by the uniform urinals of love's rural province.
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O don't you know time, with its petty vial of sands,
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inscrutable face and merciless hands?
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And don't you know love?
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It's a whirlwind of feathers,
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tickles you to your nethers and leaves a terrain of despair…
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And I know when grief goes unchecked,
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There's a kind of relief in the wreckage for the wrecked…
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Weren't you alone last time I saw you?
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How do you keep running from the world and the war?
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O I know young fathers who once were like soldiers,
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AWOL in flung places
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or without standing orders,
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Alarming approaches to time and it's killing,
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no victimless crime again and again, Again and again
Bridge
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Monday night, Goodies and The Doctor,
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Now that bath time's over, time for pyjamas.
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O I know self pity, it begins with nostalgia,
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and you'll die of melancholy if the dolor don't get ya,
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And I know a poem on a wall next to a picture
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of a dick and a fanny, by a smear of regret.
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And it sings of its own long demise, something about imperium,
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and a new sun will rise,
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and "O please don't go with those horrible guys, they only want one thing."
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O please don't go with those horrible guys, they only want one thing,
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Again and again.