Tom:
Introdução:
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Nicky my child he stands there with the wind in his hair
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Wondering whether the water the wind or the where
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I fear that someday he might ask me if mine is to blame
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And I've got no reply save to tell him it's all just a game
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And Heather and I lay together and I was in love
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She weighed up the gains and the losses and gave me the shove
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The fear of mankind's untogetherness pounds in my heart
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The deceit of my friends the betrayals of which I am part
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And oh how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my two feet standing here questioning
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And I'm just a social experiment tailored to size
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I've tried out the national machine and the welfare surprise
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I'm the rich man, the poor man, the peace man, the war man, the beast
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The festive consumer who ends up consumed in the feast
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And my five eye'd promoter is clutching two birds in the bush
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He's a theif, he's as bad as the joker, they're both in the rush
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He's telling me Gandhi was handy and Jeez sold his ring (dunno who to - God maybe?)
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And everyone knows that this dough's gonna make me the king
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my two feet standing there questioning
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Meanwhile the ticket collectors are punching their holes
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Into your memories, your journeys and into your souls
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Your life sentence starts and the judge hands you down a spare wig
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Saying, "Get out of that," and, "Goodbye, old boy, have a good gig."
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And the town label makers stare down with their gallery eyes
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And point with computer stained fingers each time you arise
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To the rules and the codes and the system that keeps them in chains
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Which is where they belong with no poems, no love and no brains
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my two feet standing there questioning
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Meanwhile the TV commercials are sweeping the day
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Brainwashing innocent kids into thinking their way
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The white politicians and clergymen have much to say
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Defending desires of the sheep they are leading astray
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And ma's favourite pop star is forcing a grin, he's a smash!
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Obliging the soft-headed viewers to act just as flash
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The village TV hooks its victims on give-away cash
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The addicts are numbers who serve to perpetuate trash
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my stupid poetry shuffling
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And the bankers and tycoons and hoarders of money and art
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Full up with baubles and bibles and full of no heart
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Who traveled first class on a pleasure excursion to fame
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Are the eyes that are guiding society's ludicrous aim
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And the village is making its Sunday collection in church
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The church wobbles 'twixt hell and heaven's crumbling perch
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Unnoticed the money box loudly endorses the shame
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As a world that Christ fought is supported by using his name
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my stupid poetry burbling
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And the pin striped sardine - come - magician has packed in his train
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Censoring all of the censorship filling his brain
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He glares through his armor-plate vision and says, "Hmm, insane."
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The prisoner is taking his shoes off to walk in the rain
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And the luminous green primadonna is sniffing the sky
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She daren't tread the earth that she's smelling, her birth was too high
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Her bank balance castle is built on opinion and fear
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Which is all she allows within three hundred miles of her ear
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my stupid poetry burbling
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And I've seen all your pedestal values, your good and your bad
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If you really believe them your passing is gonna be hard
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And I've thought through our thoughts and I know that it's blind silly season
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Occurs when our reasoning is trying to fathom a reason
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And if you really know it's all a joke but you're just putting me on
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Well it's sure a good act that youve got 'cause you've never let on
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But if all of that super-sale overkill world is for real
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Well there's nowhere to go kid so you might as well start to free wheel
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see my two feet standing there burbling
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And I had this dream in here same time as standing awake
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These various visions rushed through as I giggled and quaked
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The distant guns thunder my end and I duck for a while
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Aunty Lilly is handing me candy, she chuckles, I smile
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And our village is where I was born and it's where I will die
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And I'll never be able to leave it whatever I try
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And the ebb and the flow of the forces of life pass me by
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Which is all that I'll know from my birth to my last gasping sigh
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And how the sea she roars with laughter
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And howls with the dancing winds
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To see the dying lying there obeying
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My age and my time, the blood-fire wine and rhyme
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That fills my dream, reminds me of an atom
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In a bubble on a wave
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That held it's breath for one sweet second
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Then was popped and disappeared
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Into fruitful futilities, meaningless meaning
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Meaningless meaning, meaningless meaning
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Under the toadstool lover down by the dream
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Everything flowing over rainbows downstream
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Silver the turning water flying away
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I'll come to see you sooner, I'm on my way
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And there's a mirror that I'm lookin' straight through
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And I get it
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And there's a doorway that I'm ducking into
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To forget it
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But flashin' just beyond the sky
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The shattering midnight gathers
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And reminding me behind my mind
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The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
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Over the mountain fairground candy flies stay
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Under the moonshine fountain I'm on my way
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Lemon tree blossom ladies pouring my tea
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Afternoon blue sky breezes following me
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And there's a river that I'm making it with
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And I know it
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And I'm floating to I don't care where
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I'll just go it
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But flashin' just beyond the sky
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The shattering midnight gathers
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And reminding me behind my mind
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The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
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Daffodil April petal hiding the game
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Forests of restless chessmen life is the same
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Tides in the sand sun lover watching us dream
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Covered in stars and clover rainbows downstream
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And the question in the great big underneath
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Is forever
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And the fanfare that I'm forcing through my teeth
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Answers, "Never."
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But flashin' just beyond the sky
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The shattering midnight gathers
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And reminding me behind my mind
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The earth quakes, the sun flakes flutter
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The broken coach and the rags approach
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And the wind is devouring the ashes