| When the zephyrs pulse the sails I feel the tiller in my fingers
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| Feluccas dancing, flirting on the swollen Nile
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| Slowly touch the distance, the meniscus of horizons
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| A shimmering mirage across the desert sands
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| I follow silken threads in coral caves in soft suspension
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| Blades of torches scything through the stagnant gloom
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| Life’s breath escapes like mercury, swarming to the ceiling
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| Silver serpents tunnel shadows to another room
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| I sensed someone there, I turned around, it wasn’t you
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| I couldn’t recognise at first just who it was, it had been a while
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| It seems crazy after all that has been said and done
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| I took a vow that we would never walk alone
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| But here I am, eye to eye, face to face
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| With the other side of me
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| Where the doorways tempt my intrigue with another key of sunlight
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| I am not afraid
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| I nurse a steady heartbeat, the currency of breathing
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| Pays my way toward new openings, in a life I used to know before
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| First person singular, me, myself, I
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| First person singular, no tears left to cry
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| I’m smiling deep inside, first person singular
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| I wander through the archways of green and lush cathedrals
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| Barefoot on soft needles on the forest floor
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| Awake inside a daydream, sombre meditation
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| I only hear the whisper of the falling leaves
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| It seems crazy after all that has been said and done
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| I took a vow that we would never walk alone
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| So here I am, eye to eye, face to face
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| With the other side of me
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| I lay on table mountain, gazing down on endless ocean
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| And I knew deep in my soul that I was not alone
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| I was not alone
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| Heightened by the freedom of this new realisation
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| The sun rose to the heavens through this crack of dawn
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| This crack of dawn
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| I sensed someone there, I turned around, it wasn’t you
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| I couldn’t recognise at first just who it was, it had been a while
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| It seems crazy after all that has been said and done
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| I took a vow that we would never walk alone
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| So here I am, eye to eye, face to face
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| With the other side of me
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| The other side of me
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| The other side of me
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| On the other side of you |