Intro: CAmDmGC
In truck stops, and hamburger joints,
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In Cadillac limosuines, in the company of
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Has-beens and bent-backs
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And sleeping forms on pavement steps,
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In libraries and railway stations,
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In books and banks,
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In the pages of history
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And suicidal cavalry attacks I recognize
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Myself in every stranger's eyes.
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And in wheelchairs by monuments,
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Under tube trains, commuter accidents,
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In council care and county courts,
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At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts,
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In drawing rooms and city morgues,
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In award-winning photographs of life-rafts on the China Seas,
Dm
In transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps,
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And faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognize
FGC
Myself in every stranger's eyes.
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And now, from where I stand, upon this hill I've
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plundered from the pool
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I look around, I search the sky, I shade my eyes so
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nearly blind
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And I've seen sights of half-remembered days, I
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hear bells that chime in strange, familiar ways
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I recognize the hope you kindle in your eyes
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It's oh, so easy now, as we lie here in the dark
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Nothing interferes, it's obvious how to beat the
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tears that threaten to snuff out the spark of our
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love.