Marathon - Courting My Soul lyrics

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A midnight game of hide and seek<br />

Within the cemetery gates<br />

Face pressed against nocturnal fields<br />

Where granite headstoned congregate<br />

I'm not scare in this moonless night<br />

Everyone here admits they're dead inside<br />

Corpses below whisper their alibis<br />

Explaining wasted lives<br />

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So where were you on this stormy night?<br />

Is there a witness who can testify<br />

That you didn't take your own life<br />

And hide the body by the turn pike?<br />

We are hollow, agents of need<br />

We reep the comfort while the third world bleeds<br />

This will not change until we start to breath<br />

Until we start living<br />

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I bought a dozen roses<br />

And I put on my nicest clothes<br />

I'm trembling but I look good<br />

I'm ready to seduce my soul<br />

Here is a time, here is a chance<br />

To give my life some romance<br />

And to be greater than the living dead<br />

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Fill up the neighborhoods with art<br />

Make theaters in our own backyards<br />

laugh like you need it to survive<br />

Sing just to prove that we're alive<br />

We're alive<br />

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This is our time, this is our chance<br />

To give our lives some romance<br />

Have more to say than just nodding our heads<br />

This is my time, this is my chance<br />

I'm breaking out of this trance<br />

Climbing out of this hospital bead<br />

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Park path concrete, words in chalk challenge me<br />

"This is yours, so take it back"<br />

Forge artistry or live passionlessly?<br />

This life is mine, I want it back