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There’s a barwoman in the Hastings Arms,
And she wears no jewellery but a silver heart,
Clear eyes, like a figurehead,
On the Amsterdam, before it was a sinking ship,

“There’s a fine art to loosing well”,
She says to the man whose lost enough to tell,
So I ask of her what she knows of the myth,
That tells the story of Odin,
Who threw his eye down a well with his fist,


And do you think,
That he really saw inside himself much more,
From having been through all that pain again?

I don’t know if having knowledge opens your eyes,
Or shuts you down around your heart,
But once you start,
You’ll never unlearn it again,
You’ll never unlearn it.


There’s a line I’ve heard somewhere in a song,
That says “love is blind” - just not for everyone,
And to those who can see when even love has come -
How I envy your eyes and what you look upon,


But do you think about the world,
Are we just chemicals reacting,
Or is there something else beneath?

Like a dream,
That shows you everything non-literally,
Until you realise what reality really means,

It’s both things,
And they’re still real, if you want them to be,
They’re still real, if you want them to be,
Still real,
They’re still real, if you want them to be,
Still real,
Still real, if you want them to be.


There’s a life of colour beyond the grey,
And as you lay me down I see it here again,
There’s no warning thunder and no pain,
As she flows in your body on a thin white sheet,


But do you think,
That she’ll really always be there?
Like a love that lasts for all eternity?
If there’s such a thing,
Or does it all just disappear,
In the moment that it is still happening?

Well, we’ll see,
But it’s still real, if you want it to be,
Still real,
It’s still real if you want it to be,
Still real,
Still real, if you want it to be,
Still real,
It’s still real,
If you want it to be.

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from All That You Love Is All That You Are, released April 5, 2012
Words and music by Thom Carter. Copyright Self Released Records 2012. All Rights Reserved.

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