My only escape from starless nights,
And windowless rooms of suffocation,
Dream of the sea and the sky and nations,
Familiar to some – my emancipation,
Confined as I plan the unveiling,
A mirror of life and death unbroken,
The words that move and the symbols sounding,
The sails of the ship to bear our freedom,
Come the time,
You'll break out of this life,
I can see the world below,
From up here I could conquer all,
Take a step back and view the scale,
And all your woes are dwarfed in space,
An unending force,
I was bitten by you,
My life's blood infused with an aspiration,
Perennial uncured inspiration,
The song's everlasting life of its own,
I asked and received,
And you came unto me,
Or made yourself known from deep within me,
A collage of black and white,
And everything between the night and the day,
Now be realised,
I can see the world below etc,
I can see the world below,
From up here my perspective shows me,
That I'm searching far too close,
And missing all that I could know,
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