The Fureys - The Lovers - From "The First Leaves of Autumn" album


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Soldiers and dreams are like lovers who come without warning
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and take you by surprise when you think you must make it alone
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but sooner or later their presence it's only a memory
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but you know that without them we'd never have rolled back the stone.
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My darling once told me that loving it's better than living
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but I told her survival for me it's the easier game
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I couldn't live with her it's now I just can't live without her
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I thought I'd feel different but somehow I still feel the same
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Romeo tells me that Juliet can't live without him
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and Aphelia's crazy for Hamlet who wants to be king
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and away in the distance Marc-Anthony loved Cleopatra
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While Portia sits silent soliloquizing in the wings.
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While lovers lie sleeping I find myself travelling towards you
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the wind and the rain is as soft as the sigh on your face
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What's ever before me is nothing to what I have lived through
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the pain, the passion, the lust, the tears and the lies
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So if lovers are losers then what price this game we are playing?
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And what price the man who has not got the money to pay?
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When the voices and prayers of the angels were just an illusion
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For the lost and the lonely and those who have nothing to say.