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Picnic

Picnic by the sea: 

Deep peace of the rolling waves

On the golden sand. 

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Wayward Child

Green glowed the morning, 

When I was a wayward child; 

Before the storm came. 

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Answered Prayers

There he stood inside the door, 

Smoking endless cigarettes. 

I still recall the face he wore, 

And how he spoke with no regrets. 

 

Words that echoed so sublime, 

Sounding out without a care:

Life's too short to waste your time

Crying over answered prayers. 

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A Three-chord Song

You won't find my records

On a shelf at HMV, 

But you don't have to pay because

I'll play my songs for free. 

You may not like my music, 

You may not like my style, 

It has been out of fashion now

For a long, long while. 

 

Acid house and drum 'n' bass

Are not my cup of tea, 

I'm not like all those boy bands

That you see on your TV, 

I don't know how to hip-h...

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Ambrose the Android

Ambrose was an android, 

Unable to feel, 

With a cold mind of logic, 

And a cold heart of steel. 

 

He wore a gold waistcoat, 

And a silver bowtie, 

And he lived in an airship, 

Twelve hundred feet high. 

 

The captain was Roger, 

He came from Bridgend, 

And Ambrose the android

Was Roger's best friend. 

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Camellia

In the grey and misty morning, 
When crawling from your bed, 
Its natural infusion, 
Will clear your weary head; 
And in the deepest dark of night,  
Come stormy wind and rain, 
It will warm your lonely heart: 
The amber in the porcelain.  
 
Just set your kettle on the stove, 
To boil the water up, 
Brew it in a china pot, 
And serve it in a china cup.  
 
For several minutes (three...

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A Winter's Evening

A winter's evening; 

Hot chocolate and embraces, 

By the inglenook. 

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