The Old Revolution
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I finally broke into the prison
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I found my place in the chain
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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All the brave young men they're waiting now to see a signal
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Which some killer will be lighting for pay
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Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
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You whom I cannot betray
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I fought in the old revolution
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On the side of the ghost and the King
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Of course I was very young and I thought that we were winning
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I can't pretend I still feel very much like singing
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As they carry the bodies away
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Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
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You whom I cannot betray
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Lately you've started to stutter
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As though you had nothing to say
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To all of my architects let me be traitor
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Now let me say I myself gave the order
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To sleep and to search and to destroy
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Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
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You whom I cannot betray
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Yes, you who are broken by power
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You who are absent all day
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You who are kings for the sake of your children's story
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The hand of your beggar is burdened down with money
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The hand of your lover is clay
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Into this furnace I ask you now to venture
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You whom I cannot betray