The Last Lamplighter / Grand Necropolitan Promenade

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Year: 1996
Album: Grand Necropolitan

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Night signed the windows with an icy thumb
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Soon the cracks in the glass light up with steely sun
 
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The  
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last lamplighter, departing
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Leaves his iron vines to their rusting
 
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VERSE 2
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A rip-up of rails, of tabular lives
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Loosing the leavings in the drear defiles
 
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The  
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last lamplighter is leaving
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Mind your throats on the highway this evening
 
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Count the babies’ heads
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By making some notches on the table-legs
 
And  
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next time  
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Mars crosses the  
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Somme
 
Ah he  
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won’t think you  
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worth a  
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bomb
FADE
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