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We were promised many great things, Slower and slower, the world keeps turning
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but we were never told what the future brings. toward void—toward nothingness.
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How shall we ever reclaim the light The embers of life will finish burning—
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when the whole world is shrouded in hellish night? but we still yearn to combiness.
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I am seeking shelter, but there is no escape Beyond that, it's all a mess.
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from this deracinated world without shape. A Em
Am Em We are trapped in an endless loop of time
I am a nomad, bereft of territory, Dm A
Dm Am to lose the 'I' for the 'me'.
but wherever I look, I can find no glory. A Em
The Last Man is dragged through the slime,
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slowly losing his Will to Be—
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Slowly, slowly, the future is cancelled, Shantih shantih shantih
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never to come, never to pass. C Em
C Em Slowly, slowly, the future is cancelled,
The world we know has been dismantled, G Am
G Am never to come, never to pass.
and all that remains is but vaporous gas. C Em
The world we know has been dismantled,
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and all that remains is but vaporous gas.
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The land is haunted by spectres of the past, C Em
Dm Am Slowly, slowly, the future is cancelled,
for we know that nothing can ever last. G Am
Am Em never to come, never to pass.
All is flux—all is but a process: C Em
Dm Am The world we know has been dismantled,
everything is fated to someday evanesce. G Am
Am Em and all that remains is but vaporous gas.
Our memories give us but little solace
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when a life of awe has become aweless.
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The world was once all that is the case,
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but is now overtaken with empty space.
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