(Fish / Marillion)
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a) Brief Encounter
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A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
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Not the regal creature of border caves
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But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar of some obscure Scottish poet
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The mist crawls from the canal
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Like some primordial phantom of romance
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To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
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While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
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Your carnation will rot in a vase
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b) Lost Weekend
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A train sleeps in a siding
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The driver guzzles another can of lager, lager
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To wash away the memories of a Friday night down at the club
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She was a wallflower at sixteen, she'll be a wallflower at thirty four
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Her mother called her beautiful
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Her daddy said, "A whore"
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c) Blue Angel
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The sky was Bible black in Lyon, when I met the Magdalene
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She was paralyzed in a streetlight
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She refused to give her name
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And a ring of violet bruises
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They were pinned upon her arm
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Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
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To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
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And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear
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'J'entend ton coeur', 'J'entend ton coeur'
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I can hear your heart, I can hear your heart, I can hear your heart
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Hear your heart
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I hear your heart
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d) Misplaced Rendezvous
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It's getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper
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Something's gonna give under this pressure, and the cracks are already beginning to show
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It's too late
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The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
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They said this could never happen again
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Oh, so wrong, so wrong
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This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
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This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous
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With you
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The parallel of you, you
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e) Windswept Thumb
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On the outskirts of nowhere
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On the ringroad to somewhere
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On the verge of indecision
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I'll always take the roundabout way
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Waiting on the rain
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For I was born with a habit, from a sign
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The habit of a windswept thumb, and the sign of the rain
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Rain on me, rain
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It's started raining
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Bitter Suite : Brief Encounter
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Lost Weekend (Previously Unreleased) |