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Time Before the Grave
Night fading
 Empty beach and ocean skyline
 Twilight breaking into dawn
 Tears falling, tears falling,
 Even as the heart moves on.
 
 Pallid memories
 So sad and solitary at first light
 Eyes upon the rising sun
 Bewailing, bewailing,
 Silence falls once day is done.
 
 Faint whispers
 Forgotten voice upon the wind
 Heard even as the years pass
 Ever fading, ever fading,
 Though once tears were like broken glass.
 
 Heavy sorrow
 Sadness like a deep, still pool
 That wraps chains around the soul
 Binding, binding,
 Grief devours the body whole.
 
 Peaceful grave
 The dead sleep undisturbed
 While the selfish living mourn
 Lamenting, lamenting,
 Their cries on the cold wind borne.
 
 Broken heart
 The living grieve for themselves
 And not the carefree dead
 Left behind, left behind,
 Like memories, the heart is shed.

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