This Side Of The Blue

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[Verse 1]

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Svetlana sucks lemons across from me
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And I am progressing abominably
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And I do not know my own way to the sea
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But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me


[Verse 2]

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And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow
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And I find myself toeing th'Embarcadero
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And I find myself knowing
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The things that I knew
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Which is all that you can know
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On this side of the blue


[Verse 3]

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And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots
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And they march at you two-by-two, (Re-loo re-loo);
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When she looks at you
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You know she's nowhere near through:
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It's the kindest heart beating
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This side of the blue


[Interlude]

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[Verse 4]

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And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers
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And we all fall down slack-jawed
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To marvel at words!
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When across the sky sheet the Impossible birds
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In a steady illiterate movement homewards

[Verse 5]

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And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon
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See them rattle & boo
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See them shake and see them loom
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See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus;
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See him navigate deftly this side of the blue

[Interlude]

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[Verse 6]

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And the rest of our lives
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Will the moments accrue
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When the shape of their goneness
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Will flare up anew
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Then we do what we have to do, (Re-loo re-loo)
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Which is all that you can do
        A           Bm
On this side of the blue

[Outro]

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Oh it's all that you can do
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On this side of the blue