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Intro

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I never had a soul

despite what my eyes told

I lost it in the angels war of old

I lost it in the angels war of old

My eyes are black as space

and in them you won’t find a trace

 Of anything but raw passion and pain

anything but raw passion and pain

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I never took your soul

despite what you’ve been sold

When our eyes met your heart was black as coal

When our eyes met your heart was black as coal

If anything was done,

well, maybe I just gave you one

 And now my ghost wanes in New England’s sun

now my ghost wanes in New England’s sun

I can’t see where I’m heading

 I lost track of where I’ve been

I stare through rain-soaked windows

 Before an empty glass of gin

I turn from my reflection

 I can’t gaze upon the dead

I’m scared of where I’m heading

 I lost faith in where I’ve been

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I’m ever hunting souls

despite what deaths unfold

Until the day my eyes forever close

Until the day my eyes forever close

To set my conscious free,

To find what’s whole in me

To wander spaces deep infinite sea

To wander spaces deep infinite sea

I can’t see where I’m heading

 I lost track of where I’ve been

I stare through rain-soaked windows

 Before an empty glass of gin

I turn from my reflection

 I can’t gaze upon the dead

I’m scared of where I’m heading

 I lost faith in where I’ve been

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I’ll be hunting darkness down

 And from it I will cut a shroud

 I’ll drape it over all around here

I’ll force it deep inside the ground

 All love is dead and won’t be found

 You won’t be seeing me around here

anymore