| The milkmoons dwell in their quiet shells
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| Where they fell from the heaven
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| Two pearl fishermen hold their breath again
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| Fight to the death again for the same prize
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| Oh my brother, one of us loses
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| One must drown and the other she chooses
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| The jade of the blue offers diamonds to you
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| But you find it’s not true when the sun sets
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| You dive far below
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| Where the sun doesn’t go
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| Where your brother won’t know
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| And you hear her saying:
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| «Oh my lover, now that you’ve found me
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| Now your brother is bound to be drowned
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| I don’t know why you’d feud over me
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| All those pearls lay asleep on the sea bed»
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| The pearl in his hand
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| She’s just a grain of sand
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| She’s dressed up as snow
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| In the moonlight
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| She’s porcelain
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| On his sallow skin
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| He’s been taken in
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| By illusion
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| Oh my brother, we’re both of us losers
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| I don’t know why she ever did choose us
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| To call one her lover and bury the other
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| So I’ll hold my breath 'til the story is over |