Dead to the world my body was sleeping
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on my mind was nothing at all
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come a mist an aire so appealing
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I'm here a whispering you summouned I called
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I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing
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oh he would shift he would not shift at all
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we sat for a while he was very engaging
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and when he was gone I was gone on a smile
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With a strange way of walking
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and a strange way of breathing
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more lives than a cat
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that let me astray
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all in all he captured my heart
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dead to the world and just
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slipped away
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I heard me a music that drew me to dancing
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lo I turned under his spell
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I opened my coat but he never came closer
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I bolted the door and whispered oh well
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With a strange way of walking
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and a strange way of breathing
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more lives than a cat
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that let me astray
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all in all he captured my heart
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dead to the world and just
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slipped away
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I laid in the rushes the air was upon me
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wondering well I just couldn't discern
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will he come back come back to me
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oh I whispered will you ever return
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I was feeling sensations in no dictionary
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he was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
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the life in his fingers unwound my existence
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dead to the world alive I awoke
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With a strange way of walking
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and a strange way of breathing
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less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
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the life in his fingers unwound my existence
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dead to the world alive I awoke
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alive I awoke
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alive alive I awoke
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alive I awoke
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alive I awoke
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alive
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I awoke
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I awoke
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alive I awoke
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alive alive-o
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alive alive-o
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Dead To The World
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| Patti Smith |
