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Empire

from News From Nowhere by Tom Emlyn

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'The light of the one weak lamp in a rusty circle fell across the brick-heaps and the broken wood and the dust that been houses once, where the small and hardly known and never to be forgotten people of the dirty town had lived and loved and died, and always, lost.' Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

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You can only dream when you're asleep
though you may see things when you're awake
disregard them all
or you will weep
and your visions will fill a thousand lakes
And if I seem to contradict myself
just remember that nothing is ever true
Your picture is up on somebody's shelf
the face is the same, but is it really you?

The way things could be, the way things should be
the way they really are
in a place where nothing changes
oh sweetheart, whatever made you think you could change?

I can see the fingers of her empire
caressing the Mumbles and the hills
the trees are all black, the houses all abandoned
the factory girls smoke and construct escape plans
and now she returns from whatever she's seen
with so many strange whispers on her skin
the road is washed out by forecast rain
and the wind at the window is all that remains

the way things could be, the way things should be
the way they really are
in a place where nothing changes
oh sweetheart, whatever made you think you could change?
In a place where nothing changes
oh sweetheart, whatever made you think you could stay the same?
The way things could be, the way things should be
the way they really are

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from News From Nowhere, released May 30, 2022

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