A Proud Surrender

	  		


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I was born in the northwest of England 
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Where industrial shells like monuments stand 
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Crumbling tombs from a forgotten land 
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The price for which progress was sold 

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There lies the truth so I'm told. 


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If together you set out to conquer a mountain 
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   Pity the man who dares fall behind 
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It's on the trip to the top that temperaments are tested 
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It's on the decent that men tend to die 

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Can you recognise a sin when you're sinning? 
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  Likewise tell that you're winning 'til you've won? 
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Triumph is nothing if not shared with someone 
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Take mercy succumb to the cold 

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There lies the truth so I'm told 


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Somewhere upon a godforsaken island 
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  Craggy and damp fallen men lie 
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For thirty years have their widows been weeping 
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    Now their babies are waving goodbye 

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Am I the man I believed I'd become? 
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Could I without question take sides for someone? 
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Tie a bayonet to the end of the gun 
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And let them decorate me with gold? 

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There lies the truth so I'm told 

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Is there such thing as a proud surrender? 
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   Is it ever the right time to run? 
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What will you tell your sweetheart at the station 
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When her pretty waist you do hold? 

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Have I the heart to love without limit? 
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Have I the stomach to suffer unsure? 
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Have I the nerve to believe for a lifetime 
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Fortune will favour the bold? 

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I'm tired of waiting to be pleasantly saved 
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From the purgatory my own recklessness made 
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Some days I long in the distance to hear 
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A jackboot crack down the road 

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There lies the truth so I'm told 
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There lies the truth so I'm told 

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