Tono: C
Introducción:
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I was born in the northwest of England
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Where industrial shells like monuments stand
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Crumbling tombs from a forgotten land
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The price for which progress was sold
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There lies the truth so I'm told.
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If together you set out to conquer a mountain
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Pity the man who dares fall behind
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It's on the trip to the top that temperaments are tested
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It's on the decent that men tend to die
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Can you recognise a sin when you're sinning?
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Likewise tell that you're winning 'til you've won?
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Triumph is nothing if not shared with someone
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Take mercy succumb to the cold
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There lies the truth so I'm told
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Somewhere upon a godforsaken island
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Craggy and damp fallen men lie
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For thirty years have their widows been weeping
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Now their babies are waving goodbye
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Could I without question take sides for someone?
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Tie a bayonet to the end of the gun
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And let them decorate me with gold?
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There lies the truth so I'm told
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Is there such thing as a proud surrender?
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Is it ever the right time to run?
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What will you tell your sweetheart at the station
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When her pretty waist you do hold?
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Have I the heart to love without limit?
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Have I the stomach to suffer unsure?
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Have I the nerve to believe for a lifetime
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Fortune will favour the bold?
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I'm tired of waiting to be pleasantly saved
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From the purgatory my own recklessness made
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Some days I long in the distance to hear
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A jackboot crack down the road
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There lies the truth so I'm told
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There lies the truth so I'm told