How can you stand the silence
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That pervades when we all cry?
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How can you watch the violence
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That erupts before your eyes?
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How can you tell us something
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Just to keep us hangin' on?
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Something that just don't mean nothing
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When we see it you are gone
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Clinging to some other rainbow
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While we're standing, waiting in the cold
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Telling us the same old story
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Knowing time is growing old.
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That was a Wonderful Remark
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I had my eyes closed in the dark
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I sighed a million sighs
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I told a million lies - to myself - to myself
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How can we listen to you
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When we know your talk is cheap?
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How can we ever question
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Why we give more and you keep?
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How can your empty laughter
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Fill a room like ours with joy
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When you're only playing with us
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Like a child does with a toy?
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How can we ever feel the freedom
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Or the flame lit by the spark
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How can we ever come out even
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When reality is stark?
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That was a Wonderful Remark
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I had my eyes closed in the dark - yeah
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I sighed a million sighs
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I told a million lies - to myself - to myself
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Baby to myse - e - e - elf
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(etc. to fade)
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Wonderful Remark (another version)
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| Van Morrison |
