| Catch a train direct to death
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| Glide where wheels and rails caress
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| Hear the last taboos expressed
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| In language looted and compressed
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| Abandon this world for the next
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| Cross the great plain of forgetfulness
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| Life on earth is short at best
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| The cities are a game of chess
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| Copper domes and statuettes
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| Victories with marble breasts
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| Leave your burden with the rest
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| Watch the sleepers phosphoresce
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| Rich man leave your wealthiness
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| Wanderer, your solemn dress
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| Seafarer, the sea’s caress
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| Beowulf, your angriness
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| Time to take a second guess
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| Time to make a pact with death
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| The world is long, there is no consolation
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| For those who join at the end of the line
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| Through the train the four winds blow
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| The arctic and the sirocco
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| Stalactite and stalagmite
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| Stalag camp and satellite
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| Pass the captives on death row
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| The gulag archipelago
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| The skulls of reindeer in the snow
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| The longboat drifts, the dead float slow
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| Frightened wolves, nowhere to go
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| Find winding cloths of sleet and snow
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| The sleeping kings of long ago
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| Deep beneath Ben Bulben grow
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| Drifts are shifted by the plough
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| Like waves that break against the prow
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| How do you like your blue-eyed boy now
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| Mr Death?
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| Before the crocus cloaked the steppes
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| Before the tadpoles and the nests
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| Jack Frost screamed, his voice so hoarse
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| The signalmen were blown off course
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| They passed Attila on his horse
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| Passed the Visigoths and Norse
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| Villages with Viking forts
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| And knew not where they were
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| The world is long, there is no consolation
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| For those who join at the end of the line
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| The skeletons were at the feast
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| Before the dreams of ancient Greece
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| Before the shaman and the priest
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| Jason and the Golden Fleece
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| Before the Dead Sea Scrolls released
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| Their meaning or the experts pieced together
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| The epic of Gilgamesh
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| Don’t cry for me I never cried for you
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| Just left without the name
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| Of the place I’m going to
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| Left without so much as a whisper to remind you
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| I’m travelling to forget you
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| And to find you |