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[Verse 1]
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Poems
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Don't sit by river
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Aren't there to be picked up by poets who pass
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To find them on bank
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And I'm
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Not built to deliver
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When stepping stone love in need
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Of a bridge or a plank
[Verse 2]
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And youth
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The stream so much wider
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Thought you could slow down the flow
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If you drank and you drank
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Middle age
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Still unable to find her
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The words on the stone that you skimmed
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So heavy, it sank
[Verse 3]
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The ripple
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Hesitation creates
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The unposted poem with message
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So clear, yet so blank
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Love will come (Love to come)
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Not to he who just waits
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For mouthing from bank side seems safer
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Than living in tank
[Verse 4]
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Thoughts
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We understood were preserved
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They rotted and quickly moved on
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To a less cluttered bed
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And rust
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Some thoughts never deserved
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But treated no different to ones
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You kept in your head
[Bridge]
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Couldn't master me a classical piece
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Brain's well oiled, but it's never been greased
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Popular, but not fighting for seats
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Pays the rent, but never the lease
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Never been classed as a work of art
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Unlikely, with the slowest of starts
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Good progress if he ever took part
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Schooldays when you live by your heart
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When you live by your heart
[Verse 5]
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And those
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Strong and able survive (Strong and able survive)
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And do so at the expense
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Of fiction and art
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Dissolve
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Unnoticed to sea (Unnoticed to sea)
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As time eats the evidence left
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That we even took part
[Outro]
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Poems (Poems)
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Don't sit by river...
