Sight and Touch
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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.
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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
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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.
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3. She hears voices in her mind,
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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
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4. And now we live in a two by four,
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never going outside through
the door.
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They're watching us on the videoline,
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but we sit and wait until the
night, and in the night, we have.
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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.
(Chris de Burgh)