Sight and Touch
1. My girl wakes in
her bed at night,
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dressed in silver and dressed in white.
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She says she's having the strangest dreams,
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of another time and century.
2. And now she speaks
of a far-off place,
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a woman and a man are in a deep embrace.
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Don't they know it's against the law,
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well it must have been before the war, long
before; it was
Real love and devotion - with sight and
touch,
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Real love and emotion - with sight and
touch,
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Real love and devotion, before the
modern world.
3. She hears
voices in her mind,
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Am
talking of another world lost in time,
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before they took away the words,
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that told us how we used to be, our
history, words of
4. And now we live in
a two by four,
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never going outside through the door.
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Am
They're watching us on the videoline,
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F \
but we sit and wait until the night, and in
the night, we have.
We're never gonna be lonely - with sight and touch,
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we're never gonna be lonely - with sight
and touch,
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we're never gonna be lonely in such a
modern world.