The Poet And The Pendulum

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The........ end
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The songwriter's dead
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The blade fell upon him
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Taking him to the White Lands
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Of Empathica
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Of Innocence
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Innocence


[Home]

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The dreamer and the wine
Poet without a rhyme
A widowed writer
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Torn apart by chains of hell

One last perfect verse is still the same old song
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Oh, Christ, how I hate what I have become
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Take me home....

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Get away, run away, fly away
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Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die
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I, a whore for the cold world
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Forgive me, I have but two faces
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One for the world, one for God, save me
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world

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My home was there n' then
Those meadows of Heaven
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Adventure-filled days
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One with every smiling face

Please, no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
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Tell me once my heart goes right
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Take me home....

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Get away, run away, fly away
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Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die
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I, a whore for the cold world
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Forgive me, I have but two faces
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One for the world, one for God, save me
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world


[The Pacific]

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Spar....kle my scen....ery with turquoise waterfall
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With beauty underneath
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The Ever Free......
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Tuck me in beneath the blue
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Beneath the pain
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Beneath the rain
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Goodnight kiss for a child in time
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Swaying blade......my lullaby.....

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One the shore we sat and hoped
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Under the same pale moon
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Whose guiding light chose you
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Chose you all...................

"I'm afraid, I'm so afraid...............
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I just wish the tide would catch me first
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And give me a death I always longed for."


[Dark Passion Play}
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Second robber to the right of Christ
Cut in half - infanticide
The world will rejoice today
As the crows feast on the rotting poet

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Everyone must bury their own
No pack to bury the heart of stone
Now he's home in hell, serves him well
Slain by the bell tolling for his farewell

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The morning dawned upon his alter
Remains of the dark passion play
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Performed by his friends without shame
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Spitting on his grave as they came

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Get away, run away, fly away
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Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die
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I, a whore for the cold world
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Forgive me, I have but two faces
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One for the world, one for God, save me
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I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more
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I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world

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"Today, in the year of our Lord 2005..."
Save me


{Mother and Father}

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Be still, my son
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You're home
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Oh, when did you become so cold?
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The blade will keep on descending
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All you need is to feel my love

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Search for beauty, find your shore
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Try to save them all, bleed no more
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You have such oceans within
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In the end, I will always love you

"The beginning..."


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