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To The Broken Mould
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Through patterns and passages the years have gone by so fast
The weight of your memory takes me down a familial path
They’re tearing down the balustrades and the kitchens where you lived
A friend to the fallacy and the lies in which we hid
But I can’t say your name
No I can’t say your name
And I can’t say your name
No I can’t say your name
Past structures and barricades we found each other in the dirt
From the Green Brigades to Near the Bone it was always all about the work
And you said “take no heroes”, “the man may die”
I’m burning summer’s lovers for you tonight
But I can’t say your name
No I can’t say your name
And I can’t say your name
No I can’t say your name
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Malevolent spirits, tired and self-righteous
Angry rejected, mournful noise
Our friends were complicit in the darkest endeavours
And lines can be drawn from there to here
I don't disbelieve it, in fact I think it's endemic
But if roles were reversed would we feel the same?
Still I stand, indignant punching blankly at the ground
Years of McCarthy and we're all bourgeouis now
Let's go nowhere
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This coven is rancid with industrial espionage
As disaster advances we proceed to the paths of the past
We transcend and dismember under cover of light
This malevolence tender, this passing of night
And I'm living through you
As this backwater blacklist comes apart at the seams
Co-conspirators gather under passionless eaves
A dereliction of duty, a disfiguring blow
In vainglorious beauty, we ebb and we flow
And I'm living through you
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When the moment escapes you, and indecision is made
When the picture gets clearer and all certainties fade
You're stranded in Canton, or swimming upstream
Or screaming Hare Krishna by Topanga Canyon
You're lost, lost, lost in a dream
When you're willing to change and you've forgiven them all
When peace has descended and no-one was at fault
When connections are purer than they ever have been
You can see for the first time you're lost, lost, lost, lost in a dream
When you wake from this nightmare and you're protected from harm
In this uneasy present, there's no cause for alarm
Because there's no destination, no start and no end
They will always be with you like you, you, you were always with them
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