[00:00.353]Mercy me, the night is long
[00:06.883]Take my pen to write you this song
[00:15.399]Lord is it harder to carry on
[00:22.583]Or to know when you are done?
[00:26.893]All my life I felt as though
[00:33.267]I'm inside a beautiful
[00:41.731]Memory replaying with the sound turned
[00:48.940]Down low
[00:53.172]Long life, show your face
[01:00.251]Slow heart, curb your taste
[01:07.278]Smoke me out of my hiding place
[01:13.835]Long life, state your case
[01:21.045]What in the world are we waiting for?
[01:26.922]Building glowing cities along the shore
[01:35.438]Where the wind batters in
[01:39.252]Baiting my kin like a matador
[01:46.932]So much value placed upon
[01:53.646]What lies just beyond our plans
[02:02.109]Waving my handkerchief
[02:05.871]Running along to the end of the sand
[02:13.917]Long life, speak your name
[02:20.630]So tired of the guessing game
[02:27.239]But something is moving just out of frame
[02:34.423]Slow heart, brace and aim
[02:41.293]Breaching slowly across the sea
[02:47.876]One mast - flash like the stinger of a bee
[02:55.373]To take you away
[02:57.881]A swarming fleet is gonna take you from me
[03:07.128]The universe is getting loose
[03:13.711]Sodden spread from some leaden disuse
[03:22.122]Rushing unhinged towards diminishing lights
[03:29.855]Like a headless caboose
[03:34.165]I will wait for you 'longside the ocean
[03:41.244]And make do with my no-skin
[03:48.741]But then long life, will you let me in?
[03:55.768]And then slow heart, are you gona know him?
[04:03.474]Long life, speak your name
[04:09.091]I wait while I decry the wait
[04:15.569]And when I die, may I relate
[04:21.891]Slow heart, congregate
[04:28.082]
[04:53.237]To leave your home and your family
[04:59.637]For some distortion of property?
[05:07.892]Well darling I can't go
[05:11.366]But you may stay
[05:15.755]Here with me
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