Key: A major
Verse 1
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Before
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an d
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beyond the blue gates of death
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Oh only two birds they soar
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through the sky
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Take two blackbirds
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And sprung in the springtime in
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Europe's fertile years
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When the rain was immaculate
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not scarred and twisted
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And where in the heart that beats in man
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And where in the soul that
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beats in this heart
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Are the pastures of the little
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shining man
Verse 2
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blue gates of death
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He is at the blue gates of death
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Of death... the blue gates of death
Verse 3
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She tells me she loves me
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but he always beckons
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Through the forests of green
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Though the night slides in
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Verse 4
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Slumps over the table
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And birch she sits there scowling
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Another eagle darkens the stage
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And over the fissures
The moss everywhere
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And the ships blackblue
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Birth
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Earth
Verse 5
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The blue gates of death
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We have reached the
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We are at the blue gates of death
Verse 6
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And her eyes horizontal
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Like her heart
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There is no pain for me to feel
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"Do not touch this pain of mine"
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She says "it is all darkened fear"
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And London Bridge has
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My mother drinks Victoria gin
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Eating gingerbread men
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Two ciphers straddle the stage
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Their moves are pointless
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Their promises echo through the cinema
Verse 7
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gates of death
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They are at the blue gates of death
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They shall go through
Verse 8
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And his name is carved in stone
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But the time has soaked it away
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Where the rain runs to the sea
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It takes the moisture from this world
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It drags ships to the courses
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Where the blue is to green
And the waves lap at the night
Verse 9
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All have reached the blue gates of death
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It has come to its end at the blue gates
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At the blue gates of the
threshold
Of threshold of blue gates
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Verse 10
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The desert ships and the sand
Verse 11
And blows in the wind he wails
And sand is all everything
He waits in the corner watching
He waits in the quarter
Behind the roses fields and pastures
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of porcupine god
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Ripping and raving
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Round about his blues
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