1983 A Merman I Should Turn To Be

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Hurray, I awake from yesterday   Alive, but the war is here to stay
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So my love, Catherina and me,
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decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
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Not to die but to reborn,  away from lands so battered and torn
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Forever, forever
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Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess
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  Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
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Giant pencil and lipstick tube shaped things,
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Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
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And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red as our
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feet find the sand,  and the sea is straight ahead, straight up ahead
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Well it's too bad that our friends, can't be with us today
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Well it's too bad
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The machine, that we built,
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would never save us, that's what they say

That's why they ain't coming with us today
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And they also said it's impossible for a man to live and breathe under
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water,      forever, was their main complaint
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And they also threw this in my face, they said:
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Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God,
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and the grace of the King grace of the King  Yeah, yeah

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So my darling and I make love in the sand,
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to salute the last moment ever on dry land
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Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well
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Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
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Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
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Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
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Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style
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So down and down and down and down and down and down  we go
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hurry my darling we mustn't be late for the show
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Neptune champion games  to an aqua world that's so very dear
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right this way smiles a mermaid I can hear Atlantis full of cheer
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          Atlantis full of cheer I can hear Atlantis full of cheer