Remember once I told you about How before I heard it from your mouth
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
And the soul, if that's what you'd call it Uneasy ally of the body,
it felt nameless as a river Undiscovered underground
And the first time that you kissed me I drank dry the River Lethe
The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
But you spoke some quick new music That went so far to soothe this soul
As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name
** Some part of me must have died The first time that you called me, "Baby"
And some part of me came alive The first time that you called me, "Baby"
These days I think I owe my life To flowers that were left here by my mother
Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again This life lived mostly underground
Unknowin' either sight nor sound 'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem
Sensing only now it's dyin' Drying out, then drowning blindly
Bloomin' forth its every colour In the moments it has left
To share the space with simple living things Infinitely suffering,
but fighting off like all creation The absence of itself, anyway
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Come here Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
The last time it was heard out loud The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
To resignation as the arguing declined When I was young I used to guess
Are there limits to any emptiness? When was the last time?
Come here to me, when was the last time?
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