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by Dead Can Dance


                                       
I need my conscience to keep watch over me
                                       
To protect me from myself
                                       
So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head
                                       
When I walk into the promised land
                                       
We've been too long American dreaming
                                       
And I think we've all lost the way
                                       
Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark

                                       
I'm in love with an American girl
                                       
Well she's my best friend
                                       
I love her surreptitious smile
                                       
That hides the pain within her
                                       
And we'll go dancing in the rings of laughter
                                       
And live along by the shores
                                       
Feel alone in the brands of rapture
                                       
live along for the loss 
Chorus
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Yeah-ee, on the lea the rising wind blows
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Fay-hee, on the lea the rising wind blows
                 
How long how long?
                                          ………….  few times

                                       
Here alone on the grounds of allegiances we've left behind
                                       
Turned back by the foot of the doorway
                                       
Never lost and found
                                       
We've been too long American dreaming
                                       
I think we've all lost the heart
                                       
Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark
Chorus