Ode to Sad Disco

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The sun’s tolling bell

Subterranean eyes

A thousand to one

The factory line

Stars outside the window flicker and shine

The hollow headed morning isn’t blind

A mountain of nails burn in your hands

Here I give all I am

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Gloria

I get down on my knees

Further from my own

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A tower of stones

Sympathy’s shade

Ride a white horse

The drowned on parade

A diamond headed serpent climbs a vine

See all the lonely children lose their minds

A mountain of dust burns in your mouth

Here there’s no north, just south

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Gloria

I get down on my knees

Further from my own

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Gloria

I get down on my knees

Further from my own

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Thirst swollen tongue

An Arcadian twist

The sleepwalk is done

Yet the notion persists

Cars outside the window careening by

The hollow headed morning is unkind

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Gloria

I get down on my knees

Further from my own

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Gloria

I get down on my knees

Further from my own

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Under a cliff

Darkness denied

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

Here I have seen the light

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