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(error-riddled stab at the lyrics — corrections are encouraged)
 
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''This is a rough transcript. Corrections are welcome.''
Between last breaths and first regrets
Between last breaths and first regrets


The days drag on like cigarettes
The days dragged on like cigarettes


And the distance martyrs and martinets
And the distanced martyrs and martinets


Dally dancing with the empty silhouettes the threats
Dally dancing with the empty silhouettes the threats
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It's not the kind of love that is pinned like a medal
It's not the kind of love that is pinned like a medal


Or ???
Or presses pennies in a tin (?)




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Never made me afraid
Never made me afraid


Consoled as i was by their shade
Consoled as I was by that shade




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Here lie the roses and the ashes
Here lie the roses and the ashes


Past the barnacles that cling
Deep(?) past the barnacles that cling


Just like a road that runs through everyone and everything
Just like a lace(?) that runs through everyone and everything




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In that other still forever
In that other still forever


In that place before the past
In that time before the past


I told myself we'd be together
I told myself we'd be together
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Never made me afraid
Never made me afraid


Consoled as i was
Consoled as I was


Consoled as i was
Consoled as I was


Consoled as i was by their shade
Consoled as I was by that shade

Revision as of 00:07, 27 April 2008

Between last breaths and first regrets

The days dragged on like cigarettes

And the distanced martyrs and martinets

Dally dancing with the empty silhouettes the threats


So where but heaven does love end

And where on earth does it begin

It's not the kind of love that is pinned like a medal

Or presses pennies in a tin (?)


There is hope and after that

There is only faith

Love like a wraith

Never made me afraid

Consoled as I was by that shade


Here lie the roses and the ashes

Deep(?) past the barnacles that cling

Just like a lace(?) that runs through everyone and everything


In that other still forever

In that time before the past

I told myself we'd be together

Can you promise me

That it will be eternally


There is hope and after that

There is only faith

Love like a wraith

Never made me afraid

Consoled as I was

Consoled as I was

Consoled as I was by that shade