It is cruel and blind and does not compensate The brutal fracture Leaves sprout all over Out in the heart of the garden Your liver is one Your brain is eight twelfths of thought off Your liver is one Your brain is eight twelfths of thought off A quarter of the brain is left to see it in twenty-five lines On your mindset, infra- skunk structure The editor bedraggled, stumbled Some hurt, some days with film crew Their equipment strewn on the new development As the rain tumbles down over the riverside complex Still uncovering up the ominous thunder of the hail (Deep in the sounds of your mind) (You feel there's lost time but there's no [ ]) 'chanted by skyscraper tall Skyscraper tall World War One soldiers in green coats and Pickelhaube Joined by old, the old singer from Manchester in the 1990s Brutal fracture Leaves sprout in the heart of the garden A quarter of brain is left to see it in twenty-five lines, twenty-five lines
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