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Starlight FadingStarlight is fading, clouds cover the moon, / the wind gently stirs the leaves of the stiff holly bush. / All else is silence, a woman whispers a rosary and I sigh,

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Misty MorningI stand here by the cliffs I have called home / since before my heart kept time, / and look into the sea, raging beneath my feet.

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SerendipityI didn't go searching for them, I fell into your lovely lips / I want to drink up your beauty, in ten thousand tiny sips / I need to taste the thrilled confusion of a fleet of sinking ships

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Press The Squelch ButtonThey have tried to conceal our love, / they've thrown up roadblocks, and smokescreens / to keep us from finding each other again,

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ToilEvery expression, every syllable, every image you paint for me, / is a digital caress in an analog prison, a seductive glance, a subtle smile. / While I toil in the field, near this cottage by the sea, it is all just a delay

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Out There On The Moors(Dawn Breaks So Sweetly)When I was a much younger man, I hiked the moorland, / my mother was Welsh, and the dry rolling hills spoke to my soul. / I'd trudge on through the forgotten paths, and daydream of my darling.

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Live Inside Our FireYou and I have become a house on fire, a thousand hoses cannot douse us / we just spark up again, like a Phenoix of desire. / Rubbernecks scoff and say we will go out any second

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Reciprocating JoyI want to live with you forever, in a house of reciprocating joy. / I want to devour your body like an endless buffet of sighs. / I want you to caress me with your voice, and stroke me gently with your eyes.

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One Voice OnlyThere is only one voice that I know, even when my own escapes me. / This voice rings through / whether shouts or sighs,

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Come, My Dear RiderMy desire for you is a raging stallion, / bucking and frothing, unruly and wild. / I thought that it would remain unbroken forever,

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