| at the beginning of time
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| before there were waves
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| we’d sit in our boats
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| we’d float there all day
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| and there weren’t any waves
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| cuz there wasn’t any wind
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| cuz there wasn’t any sun
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| we were waiting for the world to begin
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| each of us in our own boat
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| each of us in our own thoughts
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| sometimes you could hear people talking amongst themselves
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| (someone had a boat with wheels and i said
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| you’re a bit early but I know how you feel)
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| but mostly it was just silence
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| the silence only broken by the absence of the clinking of the masts
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| and every now and then a bird would not fly by and someone would look up and say — what wasn’t that?
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| one night (or was it day?)
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| i was awoken from a dream
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| i was dreaming of someplace like I’d never been
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| and i heard someone say
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| someone’s fallen in and they can’t swim
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| so i leaned out and i, i pulled them in and he was holding his head
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| and it was HUGE and shaped like a fish
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| and he slid down to the crook of the keel
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| and when i was sure he’d fallen asleep
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| i fell back to my reverie
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| we were waiting waiting waiting
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| you know what i think i miss most about that time?
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| was the quality of the blackness
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| it was soft somehow in the absence of fear
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| you could take it into your mouth
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| and send it out through your teeth
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| (my dear)
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| but the silence…
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| oh, if, if i could go back to those times
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| i’d take that silence there
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| i’d take it into myself and bring it back to you
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| and this is what i’d say
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| we were waiting in the darkness
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| at the beginning of time
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| before there were waves
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| we’d sit in our boats
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| we’d float there all day
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| and there weren’t any waves
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| cuz there wasn’t any wind
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| cuz there wasn’t any sun
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| we were waiting for the world to begin
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| we were waiting for the world to begin
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| now…
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| no. |