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I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me
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I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me
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A thousand teeth and yours among them, I know
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Our hungers appeased, our heart beats becoming slow
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G C/g D/f# G
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Thrown here or found, to freeze or to thaw
G C/g D/f# G
So long, we'd become the flowers
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw
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And they'd find us in a week
G C G
When the weather gets hot
G C/g D/f# G
After the insects have made their claim
C G C G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
I have never known sleep like this slumber that creeps to me
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I have never known colors like this morning reveals to me
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And you haven't moved an inch such that I would not know
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If you sleep always like this, flesh calmly going cold
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G C/g D/f# G
We'll lay here for years or for hours
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet
G C/g D/f# G
So long, we'd become the flowers
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep
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And they'd find us in a week
G C G
When the cattle'd show fear
G C/g D/f# G
After the insects have made their claim
G C/g D/f# G
After the foxes have known our taste
C G C G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
G G
And they'd find us in a week
G C G
When the weather gets hot
G G
And they'd find us in a week
G C G
When the cattle'd show fear
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And they'd find us in a week
When the buzzards get loud
After the insects have made their claim
After the foxes have known our taste
After the raven has had his say
C G C G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
C G C G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
C G C G
I'll be home with you, I'll be home with you
Outro:
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