Intro
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Back in the day I never had to choose my way
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without a clue
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No need for a hand
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Unaware that I was dancing on the edge but wasn't due
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Oh, serene's the sea behind me, into the whirl of devil time
[Interlude]
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[Verse 1]
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F gentle rocking, then a crack in the cradle
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You're asleep until you hit the ground
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One for this road and another for after?
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Someone tell me: what's yer 'after' all about?
[Pre-Chorus]
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From ease to the sky, until the world gets in the way
[Chorus 1]
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Ring in the age: countdown to zero
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Chasing the afterglow
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The outcome is set, as far as I know
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Time and again the sundown it screams my name
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Buy I try to turn away
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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The gorge of the instant devours the future
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To spit it out as a fading memory
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Gimme the strength to defy contradiction
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When my mindset fails to let me see
[Pre-Chorus]
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Will I travel on and longing pave the road?
[Chorus 2]
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Ring in the age: countdown to zero
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Chasing the afterglow
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The outcome is set, as far as they know
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Is it the end or maybe the outset
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Or just a stage of a whole that I can't survey
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Time and again it's screaming my name
[Solo 1]
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[Solo 2]
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[Bridge 1]
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So you don't wanna see
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You realize that your senses have come to the edge
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And you don't trust a single one
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Don't wanna turn your inside towards the sky
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Are we afraid to catch a glimpse of truth tonight?
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Could the heavens reveal what's inside the afterglow?
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Is this light just based on perception now?
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Or do I refuse to perceive what is hard to ignore?
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From ease through fire into the afterglow...
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And you don't wanna see (I look up in search of forever and wonder)
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See that your eyes have come (Trying to make out that day)
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To a point where you don't see why and where you run (That I had to give my inherent spiritual juvenility
away and again)
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Will you turn your inside towards the sky (Why is it made so difficult for us to read the signs that we)
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You're scared to death by what your heart may see tonight (Have to read in order just to understand read so
we can comprehend a trace of eternity)
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Pictures of void burn in the afterglow (I look up in search of forever and wonder)
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Purification or just a perception now? (Trying to make out that day)
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Will you refuse to feel what you can't ignore (That I had to give my inherent spiritual juvenility away
and again)
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From ease through fire into afterglow (Have to read in order just to understand read so we can comprehend
a trace of eternity)
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[Bride 2]
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I try to look as far as the eye can see
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Past and beyond the dark painted wall, oh
[Chorus]
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Ring in the age: countdown to zero
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Chasing the afterglow
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The outcome is set, as far as they know
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Is it the end or maybe the outset
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Or just a stage of a whole that I can't survey
Cm A#
Time and again it's screaming my name
[Outro]
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