We Shall Live Again

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[Verse 1]
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 I boarded the Pullman somewhere east of Council Bluffs
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 I've been riding this train to the west now for so long that I can't remember when
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 The clouds are at the winds command
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 A great extinction is close at hand
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    But we shall live again


[Chorus]
D               G
 We shall live again
D               A
 We shall live again
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 Though our religions the same as the pigeons
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 From Francis of Assisi
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To the fans of AC/DC
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    We all shall live again


[Verse 2]
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 The nightingales were seized with a panic
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 As warplanes flew over the green Atlantic
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 But the day was fair beyond compare
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And the long parade and the serenade
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    And we shall live again


[Chorus]
D               G
 We shall live again
D               A
 We shall live again
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 We'll be painting roses with grandma Moses
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 And we'll feel just as free and young
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 As those flowers we stand among
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    And we shall live again


[Verse 3]
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 Well this train is like an endless parade
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It passes by each and every home in each and every town
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 And the women and the children and the men they hover to the doorways and the windows
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 Some hop on board some wave farewell
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 Or weep at the beauty of the crossing bell
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    But we all shall live again


[Verse 4]
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 I been in most of these motels on the edge of reality
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 I even rode my donkey over the mountains of Argentina
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 Some die on the steppes of a frozen wasteland
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 Some OD on the road to Graceland
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    But we all shall live again


[Chorus]
D               G
 We shall live again
D               A
 We shall live again
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 I find these truths to be self evident
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 In this life where any joyful thing
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 Is paid two fold in suffering
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    We shall live again


[Verse 5]
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 Well the train pressed on under nights crumbling wave
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 Through the dreamlike districts of the vanished days
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 A dead man falls from a trotting horse
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 The rivers run backward to their ancient source
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    But we all shall live again


[Verse 6]
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 Well the dinning car is filled mostly with victorian era ghosts
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 And some sharpshooters firing at angels like startled ducks on the horizon
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 But you're with me here when I close my eyes
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 Giving alms to trembling palms
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 Your eyes so green and labyrinthine


[Verse 7]
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 Remember Hegel, that beautiful son of a bitch
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 Or Marcel Proust, you thought he ruled the roost
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 He's drinking a drink that's black as ink
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 Watching a candied cherry sink
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 It's like the sorrow of the world distilled


[Chorus]
D               G
 We shall live again
D               A
 We shall live again
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 All the great nations of the western plains
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 There will be no more anguish and no more fear
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 And no more bloodshed on the red frontier
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    And we shall live again


[Verse 8]
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 The wind took my train up into the chasms of the sky
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 And in the air hung a golden trumpet
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 Some warn of heaven and its narrow gate
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 The baby angels are armed and overweight
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 As they float above the turnstile and sing


[Chorus]
D                G
 You shall live again
D                A
 You shall live again
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 This world is ours and all the stars
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 It's like the icing on the cake of death
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 And the only word that rhymes is breath
D  A               D
    We shall live again


[Outro]
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