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Soldiers in dreams are like lovers who come without warning
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And take you by surprise when you think you must make it alone
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Sooner or later their presence is only a memory
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But you know that without them you'd never have rolled back the stone
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And as lovers lie sleeping, I find myself travelling towards you
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The morning arises, the wind is as soft as a sigh
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And whatever’s before me, is nothing to what I have come through
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The pain and the passion, the tears and the laughs and the lies
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My darling once told me that loving was better than living
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But I told him survival for me was the easier game
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I couldn't live with him, now it's I can't live without him
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I thought I'd feel different, but somehow I still feel the same
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Romeo tells me that Juliet can't live without him
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And Ophelia is crazy for Hamlet who wants to be King
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And away in the distance, Mark Anthony loves Cleopatra
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As Portia sits silent, soliloquizing in the wings
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So if lovers are loosers, what price the game we are playing?
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And what price the man who has not got the money to pay?
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And the silence of angels means praying is just an illusion
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For the lost and the lonely and those who have nothing to say