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[aid] => mick
[title] => Falling Without Wings
[time] => 2008-09-13 03:11:19
[hometext] => Words: Lee Ghoul / From: The Scarlet Belltower by Lee Ghoul and the Ghoultown Gravesters
[bodytext] => You think you own a mansion They have found another fool For an infernal expansion Furthering the desires of the most cruel Watch as the burning spreads You wish you had not said "Open up the Earth's core, Let them taste the burning salt-shores." It is your entire fault Every soul's been bought "But it cannot be my doing!" You tremble ‘cause you know you're losing Struggling to close the marble door You have seen it done before As another cataclysm passes You see their fury is everlasting Go fill the painted champagne glasses The phantoms feeding from the ashen shores You cried and realized "If only I could have known that this was in store." See you left me, I'm not ending See I'm saddened For all the letters you're not sending I went up into the sky Left my humility behind How it melted away my pride See you found the article The one where it was twenty years ago Hard to hide the evidence, however partial A handless gesture they wish to impose Father told me not to leave his side I felt I knew where the light did hide Flames as tender kisses slowly burned me alive I fell asleep, plummeting into the dusky brine [comments] => 0 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 34 [informant] => Lee [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SongLyrics )
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