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The Granite Shore
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The Performance of a Lifetime
Such noises off… is that a drummer drawing near? They must keep moving
Just to stay alive,
I hear - or was that sharks…? - still, I want it to be clear：I was
Always lucid.
What news from England?
Are they happy now they're free… and do you think
That they might send for me to come
and claim the throne? If you look out you
Can see election lights are burning.
I felt the spite as we hung on my
chords, but God we were tight when we trod
The boards. The performance of a lifetime every single night.
This was the one place there was
never any fear, nothing stupid could ever
Happen here; they have such sense,
and they hold it all so dear… how you must
Be laughing.
Now there is little that I can
recognise; I see us waving, through other peoples'
Eyes. Oh, they seem so bitter,
saying their goodbyes, and who can rightly
Blame them?
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And they will call me a hypocrite and
slave, but after all I came and I gave the
Performance of a lifetime every single night.
They'll make it seem I was crippled
and weak, but I was a dream, up there at
Peak; the performance of a lifetime
, I delivered [every
Single night],
I gave a performance [every single night]; no matter what it cost
We will sing you sweetly to your rest;
Beyond all noise, beyond all violence.
We will sing you sweetly to your rest;
And - as you know - the rest is silence.
The vault is open,
here I'll lie in stone; though none lie beside me, I shall not
Rest alone. So mourn me for a while,
I was only flesh and bone. Mourn me for
A while, it behoves you all to moan.
What survives is love.
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