Before Machines

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[Verse 1]
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You and I are climbing in a canyon
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Lightning struck it once before machines
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Holidays are nothing to these long yellow clouds
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Lying down like girls in magazines


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[Verse 2]
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Hiding out behind the swings and statues
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You're tired of running round and jumping rope
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Looking through the boards up at the schoolhouse
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Spitting on our hands we made an oath


[Chorus]
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It's a long, it's a long time coming
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It's a long, it's a long hard time


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[Verse 3]
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Came upon a kind man in this slow town
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He's gentle as a heartbeat in a crowd
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But I am growing lawless in his good arms
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Drawing blood and clawing my way out


[Verse 4]
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And I am out here spinning on a clothes line
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There's nothing now that moves me but the wind
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And I am crying "come out here and find me
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Please come shake me down and bring me in"


[Chorus]
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It's a long, it's a long time coming
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It's a long, it's a long hard time
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It's a long, it's a long time coming
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It's a long, it's a long hard time


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[Verse 5]
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And I believe the news has made me wreckless
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I cannot keep from walking after dark
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I wanna see the places that were mentioned
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To see a map of all the brightest stars


[Verse 6]
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We can hang our banner on the hillside
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Yeah we can touch the sun and turn the soil
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We can own the oceans and the saltmines
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And look out on it all and still want more


[Chorus]
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It's a long, it's a long time coming
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It's a long, it's a long hard time
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It's a long, it's a long time coming
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It's a long, it's a long hard time


[Outro]
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