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Artist: Peter Hammill
Canonical path: /peter-hammill/when-language-corrodes
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When Language Corrodes
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When Language Corrodes
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And when language corrodes
all our faculties falter and blur.
Nobody knows how our tongues got so swollen and furred.
What truths are there left to be told
when we're all lost for words?
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