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Now isn't
it strange that of everyone who |
Before us
has passed the darkest door through |
No one
returns to tell of the road |
That for us
to know we must travel too
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There's something going on here |
I don't know what it means |
There must be something larger |
Larger
than
life outside of dreams
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I shot out
my soul through the singular eye |
Still
thirsting to quench from this paradise well |
And then by
and by my soul came to tell |
"There can be
no Heaven in self-created Hell"
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There's something going on here |
I don't know what it means |
There must be something larger |
Larger
than
life outside of dreams
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If Heaven's
but the vision of a found desire |
Then Hell's
a helpless shadow of a soul on fire |
Downcast
upon the darkness into which it fell |
Yet burning
to emerge in time if only to expire
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There's something going on here |
I don't know what it means |
There must be something larger |
Larger
than
life outside of dreams
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Inspired by Edward M.
FitzGerald's translation of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” |
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