Sleeping At Last - Clockwork lyrics

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There is glass between our touch, <br>Phantom limbs of former love... <br>And the truth is that I am so terrified <br> <br>That the callous is deeper <br>Than the surface of our skin. <br>And it takes us twice as long, <br>It takes twice as long to heal. <br> <br>We'll lift up the ground to see <br>The system of roots beneath. <br>Gears turn, endlessly, <br>To bring the world back to life <br>Like clockwork, when it dies. <br> <br>The cadence of beating hearts, <br>The clock of its moving parts <br>Grows louder and louder <br>From this restless earth... <br> <br>Future gardens wait patiently below <br>And somehow we smell them blossom <br>Through the snow. <br> <br>Still unsatisfied, <br>We chase what we're denied. <br>As generations wait, <br>We can't resist the taste of possibility. <br>Gears turn, endlessly, <br>To bring us back to life again. <br>Like clockwork, we begin<br>