Tonalité : C# minor
Verse 1
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Citadel re verberates to a
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thousand voices, now
Dumb:
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What have we become?
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What have we chosen to be?
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Now, all history is reduced
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to the syllables of
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Our name-
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Nothing can ever be the same:
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Now the Immortals are here.
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At the time it seemed a reas
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onable course
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To harness all the force
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Of life without the threat of death,
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But soon we found that boredom
and inertia
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Are not negative, but all the law we know,
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And dead are will and words like survival.
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Verse 2
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Arrival at im munity from all age,
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all fear and
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All end
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Why do I pretend?
Our essence is distilled
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Am
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And all fa miliar taste is now drained,
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And though purity is maintained
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It leaves us sterile,
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Am
Living through the millions of years,
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A laugh as close as any tear;
Living, if you claim that all
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That entails is breathing,
eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping,
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sinking ever down and down
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And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning.
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Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Take away
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the threat of death and all you're
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Left with is a round of make- believe.
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Marshal every sullen breath
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and though you're
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Ultimately bored by endless ec stasy
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It's still the ring by which you hope to be
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Engaged
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To marry the girl who will
give you forever-
It's crazy, and plainly
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Dm
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That simply is not
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enough.
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Interlude 2
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Verse 4
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Am
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What is the dullest and
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bluntest of pains,
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C
Such that my eyes never close
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without feeling it
There?
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What abject despair demands an end
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Am
B
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To all things of in finity?
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If we have gained,
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how do we now meet the
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Cost?
What have we bargained,
and what have we
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Lost?
What have we relinquished,
never even knowing it
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Em
Was there?
Verse 5
Am
What thoughts now of
holding fast the line,
G
Defying death and time?
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Everything we had is gone,
E
Everything we laboured for
and favoured more
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Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
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F
Am
Of false hope and false deliverance.
Verse 6
Am
But now the nuptial bed is made,
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The dowry has been paid:
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The toothless,
haggard features of eternity
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Now welcome me between
the sheets
To couple with her withered
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F
body - my wife.
Hers forever,
Hers forever,
Hers forever
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C
Am
In still life.
Outro 1
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