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Created on: October 30, 2008
Knowing, Seeing
Somewhere, a clock is chiming,
And somewhere, there's somebody dying.
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Yesterday, someone asked
Why the world is masked.
Don't they know? Don't they know?
A star is falling from space,
Soaring through the sky - unseen, without a trace.
Don't you see? Can't you see?
Somewhere, the earth quakes
And a new being a god creates.
But no one knows, and no one sees.
Just the way it was meant to be.
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