| Night has descended on this corner of Eden
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| I’m sending this message to see if you’re working
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| The temperature drops down at the base of the valley
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| No lights from the houses
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| I was told you’d escaped to a place past the marker
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| With a few rolls of film, which I hope you’ve been using
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| In the drawer I found the knife that you left
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| Now unused as a mark of respect
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| I picture you needing it still
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| Are you in need of it still?
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| I re-live the last night when you danced at the party
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| Your t-shirt was stained and your hair was unruly
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| You called out the names of the all the people arriving
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| Laughing at first, before soon disappearing
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| And the look that you gave to the friends who remained
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| Was as cold as the stone though they were never to blame
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| And your face comes to me clear
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| So much underneath the veneer
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| I have questions from numerous names
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| You still run the game
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| I’m fine if you’re asking, well, I’m greyer but settled
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| With a new set of friends now and a pattern is forming
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| I never said thank you for all the things that you offered
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| I’ll leave it there, and you can take it or leave it
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| Up on the hills the fir trees are lit by the moon
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| Oh, darling it started with a hunger
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| In the drawer I found the knife that you left
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| Now unused as a mark of respect
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| I picture you needing it still
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| Are you in need of it still?
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| First I was late and I don’t know what I finally said to you
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| Ruin of cold light falling
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| You always knew the family names that would take a final day to cave
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| A little more worn away, that is how we figure time
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| Found a vivid lesson I could take and then I turned the tide
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| I don’t know what I fear or formalise, I’ll never know
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| And you, oh why?
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| I wanna know what it’s still only that I’m aching
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| Oh, but I’m ok
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| Faced a little known world, laid something bare
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| Nullified all the feelings that I ever knew
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| Lit a fire to stay away, I’m fine now
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| You don’t know how really close we were |