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[Verse 1]

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It will shine and it will shudder as I guide it with my rudder on its metalled ways
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It will cut the night before it as it leaves the day that saw it on its metalled ways
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Nobody passes us in the deep quiet of the dark sky
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Nobody sees us alone out here among the stars

[Chorus]

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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 2]

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Through a fault of our designing we are lost among the windings of these metal ways
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Back to silence, back to minus with the purple sky behind us in these metal ways
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Nobody hears us when we're alone in the blue future
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No one receiving the radio's splintered waves

[Chorus]

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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days
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In these metal ways
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In these metal days