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Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows

 It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow

 See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan

 From the roof of a friend I watched an empire ending

Heard it loud and long, the river's song

Time marching on, to a mad man's drum

Don't forget what you've learned

All you give is returned

 And if life seems absurd

 What you need is some laughter

 And a season to sleep

 And a place to get clean

 Maybe Los Angeles

 Somewhere no one's expecting

On a detox walk

Over Glendale Park

GOver sidewalk chalk

Some rope read "start over"

So I muffle my scream

On an Oxnard beach

Full of fever dreams that scare me sober

Into saltless dinners

Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth

 Is it bitter or sweet all depends on your timing

Like a meeting of chance

 With the train station glance

 Many lifetimes have passed in a instant reminded

Of a millstone house in a seaside town

When your heart gave out in a mission bed

So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge

 You woke up purged as a wailing infant

In Krug Thep, Thailand

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows

 It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow

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