Taken from "The silent corner and the empty stage"
Chord-transcription by Wolfgang Bechtluft, Germany, 23.08.2002
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Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at it's heart:
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people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart......
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foundations are shatterd in the city inside the barricaded doors.
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Hiding behind the walls, lonely as night falls,
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maybe the people are waiting for trumpets.....
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Babylon's strange, seventh wonder of the earth:
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gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt....
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oh you with your head on fire you can't realy see.
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The hangig gardens sing, but with a hollow ring:
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the life is false, it's killing me........
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Don't look back or you'll turn to stone;
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look around before your life is overgrown with concrete slabs.
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On your back the searching eyes, that stab between chintz curtains,
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glinting, but never owning to a name.
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Like the inmates of asylums, all the citzens are contagiously
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insane....
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Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age:
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no-one really knows what to do, and the city is a cage........
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it traps with ashen hours and concrete towers imprisons in the social
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order...
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the cities lost its ways, madness takes all today
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under water, I can't live .......