| Fast as you can
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| Run to the water
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| Cool as I am
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| I’ll give you shelter
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| This place is built to make you smaller
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| To keep your face out of the light
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| Around the city’s growing taller through the night
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| And then a symphony of laughter
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| Cuts though the air of foreign tongues
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| And you are back at where you started:
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| All alone
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| So fast as you can
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| Run to the water
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| Safe in my hands I’ll bring you home
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| There’s nothing I can do
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| There’s water coming through, I can sense it
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| And I swim the whole night through
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| But in spite of all I do I’m defenceless
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| So I’ll try to pretend I was always alone
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| And with a handful of pills I’ll divide us
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| 'cause with millions of miles between arrow and bow
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| It is easier to kill it with silence
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| So to hide from our hundreds you went underhill
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| Where the treeroots grew into your bones
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| I tell all my friends you are living there still
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| In the teeth of the chaos above
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| Hammer hits head but the nail doesn’t move
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| Though the blows throwing sparks all around
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| It is never too late
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| But today is too soon
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| So for now you must stay underground
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| So fast as you can
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| Run to the water |