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Throw down a line
Help a poor boy
Whose a-drowning in a stormy sea
Throw down a line
Help a poor boy
Whose a-hanging in a nowhere tree
Have you got a place for me

Men are tied
In chains of silence
I look on violence, up, down, left and right
Is there no hope in sight
The peaceful hand
That once caressed me
Hurts like the rest because it's turned to stone
Talons of steel have grown

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See the moon
It's getting nearer
But no more clearer than the earth below
What do we really know
I feel the stab
Of pain returning
Despair is burning in my heart again
Why don't they see the end

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