The Past Recedes

One, two, three, four
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 And then the past recedes
 And I won't be involved
 The effort to be free
 Seems pointless from above
 You're looking down at me
 I'd rather stay below
 Than have you staring up at me
 It's nowhere I want to go (ooh)
 Aye, this business of how long we try to stay alive
 Why to be here, you first got to die
 So I gave it a try
 And what do you know
 Time was so long ago
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 And things come back, you see
 To where they don't belong
 And every drop of sea
 Is the whole ocean (ooh)
 I lied to the greatest thieves
 About anything and everything
 I'm a figure of forgotten speech
 I'm out of reach
 Oh, I can't play it safe
 But I might, just in case
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 Ooh
 I'm disguised as a reaching hand
 I'm a working man
 I don't understand why clockout
 Come so slow every time
 That's one line I stay right behind
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 That's one line I stay right behind
 Yeah