| Midafternoon, high summer
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| On the island’s southern shore
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| Just you and your boy Zorba
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| Going where the water’s warm
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| Where the sea’s a desolation
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| It ain’t much better than the land
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| And any trace of civilisation
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| Has been long buried in the sand
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| Like waves on thirsty beaches
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| Where goats with human faces
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| And the skeletons of horses
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| They roam the fourth dimension
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| Long before anyone drank hemlock
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| Long before anyone got nailed up
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| Two afternoons that reign ‘cause they were forever going to pains
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| Tryin' make their names tearing each other up
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| This morn you woke and spoke of dreaming
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| About two endless afternoons
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| Well I feel old by hotel pools
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| But in the future I’ll be history
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| Though I’m happy going anywhere you choose
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| The sea, the sky, your dreaming eyes
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| And a heat that won’t let up
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| I hear someone say «I see the coast of Africa from here»
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| But you’re asleep or you don’t bother looking up
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| They said that later on there’d be a party on the beach
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| I look around me now and I can see it’s still at large
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| I would not hold them to their promises
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| ‘cause this could all be a mirage
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| We used to dive down to the bottom
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| Way out beyond the shore
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| But something’s changed
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| Where, what, how, when?
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| I do not really think I wanna know about
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| What’s down there anymore
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| Well the last time we went down there
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| I was not feeling very good
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| But you could always hold your breath
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| A whole lot longer than I could
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| Well of course you’d go a long way in a short time
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| If you felt that’s what you wanted
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| You’ve only gotta back yourself for once
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| But me I’m trying to enjoy two afternoons under the dunes
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| Though all I’ve made’s a detailed survey of the surface of the sun
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| Just say from this day forward
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| You won’t ever look behind
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| And everything that you believe in
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| It just depends on what you find |