Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The forest awakes
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A desert at dawn
And the rhythm moves on
Verse 2
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people awake
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The streets are alive
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Forwards and back wards in every
Verse 3
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direction
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The abs' perpetual motion
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The shifting of light on
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the bank s of the river
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I'm free, but I'm keeping my clothes on
Verse 4
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I'm marching along
The street where you live
The song is a road
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A road is a face
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A face is a time
And a time is a place
The heart is a simple equation
With beautiful words and
with beautiful people
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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A fruit that falls before it's grown
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I heard a sound and a bird has flown
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It breaks to pieces above the forest
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A million particles born today
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Out beyond the blue horizon
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Air cannot escape
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Underneath the weeping willow
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I can see your face
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Free- form, climbing all over me
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Creatures great and small
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Doctors pulling them out of you
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Hideous, virtuous, both of us
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Come
Verse 6
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in my kit chen
when it rains outside
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Sweet inspiration sneaks up from
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behind
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Verse 7
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Forest is true
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I know for a fact
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The big ger the front
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Then the bigger the back
Verse 8
The bombs burst in air
My hair is alright
the trees and the houses
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The strangeness of words
How the meaning keeps changing
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