[Come & See]
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There's an island hidden in the sound
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Lapping currents lay your boat to ground
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Affix your barb and bayonet
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The curlews carve their Arabesques
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And sorrow fills the silence all around
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Come and see
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There's a harbor lost within the reeds
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A jetty caught in over-hanging trees
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Among the bones of cormorants
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No boot mark here nor finger prints
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The rivers roll down to a soundless sea
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Come and see
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Come and see
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The tides will come and go
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With this bare waking eye
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Who rose like the wind
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Though we know for sure
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Amidst this fading light
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We'll not go home again
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Come and see
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Come and see
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In the lowlands, nestled in the heat
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A briar cradle rocks it's babe to sleep
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Its contents watched by Sycorax
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And patagon in paralax
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A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep
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Come and see
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Come and see
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The tides will come and go
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Witnessed by no waking eye
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Who rose like the wind
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Though we know for sure
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Amidst this fading light
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We'll not go home again
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Come and see
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Come and see
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[The Landlord's Daughter]
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As I was rambled
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Down by the water
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I spied in sable
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The landlord's daughter
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Produced my pistol, then my saber
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To make no whistle or thou will be murdered
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She cursed, she shivered
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She cried for mercy,
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"My gold and silver if thou will release me!"
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I'll take no gold miss, I'll take no silver
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I'll take those sweet lips, and I'll deliver
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[You'll Not Feel The Drowning]
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I will dress your eyelids
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With dimes upon your eyes
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Lay you close to water
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Green your grave will rise
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Go to sleep little ugly
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Go to sleep you little fool
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Forty-winking in the belfry
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You'll not feel the drowning
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You'll not feel the drowning
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Forget you once had sweethearts
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They've forgotten you
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Think you not on parents
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They've forgotten too
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Go to sleep now little ugly
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Go to sleep now you little fool
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Forty-winking in the belfry
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You'll not feel the drowning
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You'll not feel the drowning
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Go to sleep little ugly
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Go to sleep little fool
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Forty-winking in the belfry
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You'll not feel the drowning
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You'll not feel the drowning
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Hear you now the captain
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Heed his sorrowed cry
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"Weight upon your eyelids
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As dimes laid on your eyes"
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The Island: Come & See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel The Drowning
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The Decemberists |