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Artist: The Divine Comedy
Canonical path: /divine-comedy-the/bleak-landscape
Related lyric paths: 6
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Bleak Landscape
Read Bleak Landscape lyrics by The Divine Comedy on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Bleak Landscape
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I cannot reconcile myself to this
I wish I could!
I cannot live the life I ought to live
I know I should!
I cannot bring myself to pray,
Except to wish these words away
They echo round my head
But soon they will escape
Across the bleak landscape
There is a tree that grows out of this earth
It stands alone
There is a wind that shaped it from its birth
By whom the seed was sown
I cannot bring myself to sing
It is a wild, untethered thing
That echoes round my head
But soon it will escape
Across the bleak landscape
I cannot bring myself to... speak
Except to wish myself asleep
Every word unuttered
Only serves to clutter up my head
When I go to bed
I dream that
Soon I will escape
Across the bleak landscape
And soon we shall escape
Across our very own bleak landscape
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