Elsa’s Song

Verse 1:
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I can hear the cannons calling
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As though across a dream
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And I can smell the smoke of Hell
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In every stitch and seam
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And like flowers, the bodies tumble
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Around this muddied lot
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I cannot hear them scream
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‘Forget me not.’
 
Verse 2:
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Your voice it carries over
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The hubbub and the hum
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And it paints the sky and circles high
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Like the beating of a drum
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You will scream ‘I won’t forget you’
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But I’ll cover my cold ears
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It cannot be a lie
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If no-one hears.
 
Verse 3:
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Cos although you say good day to me
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I know I don’t belong
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And although you hold my hand and say
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‘I love you’, you are wrong.
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Because love does not exist here
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In this garden there’s no feeling
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And you say the words so often
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That I barely know the meaning
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And when all the flowers are rotten
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And all the cannons shot
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I’ll scream, but you won’t hear
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‘Forget me not’
 
Verse 4:
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And in years to come you’ll wander
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To the place up on our hill
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And then you’ll cry to our painted sky
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‘I loved him then, I love him still’.
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And you’ll strew some sage and lilies,
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And roses where I rot
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Of all the flowers you picked,
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I knew you would forget
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Forget-me-nots.