Awol

	  		

Intro 
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Three dozen cycles, give or take a sum, 
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The sum of that experience - how to keep running. 
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O I know justice, it's a birthright if you're born right, 
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and I know how handsome is that trick of the light, 
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So don't be mistaken in thinking I'll do right 
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given the chance to do wrong again and again. 


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Summer romeos casing the park, 
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by the uniform urinals of love's rural province. 
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O don't you know time, with its petty vial of sands, 
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inscrutable face and merciless hands? 
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And don't you know love? 
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It's a whirlwind of feathers,  
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tickles you to your nethers and leaves a terrain of despair? 


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And I know when grief goes unchecked, 
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There's a kind of relief in the wreckage for the wrecked? 


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Weren't you alone last time I saw you? 
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How do you keep running from the world and the war? 
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O I know young fathers who once were like soldiers, 
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AWOL in flung places 
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or without standing orders, 
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Alarming approaches to time         and it's killing, 
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no victimless crime again and again, Again and again 

Bridge 
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Monday night, Goodies and The Doctor, 
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Now that bath time's over, time for pyjamas. 
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O I know self pity, it begins with nostalgia, 
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and you'll die of melancholy if the dolor don't get ya, 
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And I know a poem on a wall next to a picture 
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of a dick and a fanny, by a smear of regret. 


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And it sings of its own long demise,                something about imperium, 
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and a new sun will rise, 
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and "O please don't go with those horrible guys, they only want one thing." 
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O please don't go with those horrible guys, they only want one thing, 
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Again and again.