Hurrah, I awake from yesterday

Alive, but the war is here to stay

So my love Catherina and me

Decide to take our last walk

Through the noise to the sea

Not to die, but to be re-born

Away from a life so battered and torn

Forever...

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Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess

Every inch of earth is a fighting nest

Giant pencil and lip-stick tube shaped things

Continue to rain and cause screaming pain

And the Arctic stains

From silver blue to bloody red

As our feet find the sand

And the sea is strait ahead

Strait ahead...

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Well, it's too bad that our friends 

Can't be with us today

Well, that's too bad

"The machine that we built 

Would never save us"

That's what they say

(That's why they ain't coming with us today)

And they also said

"It's impossible for man

To live and breath underwater

Forever" was their main complaint

And they also threw this in my face

They said

Anyway, you know good well

It would be beyond the will of God

And the grace of the King

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So my darling and I

Make love in the sand

To salute the last moment 

Ever on dry land

Our machine has done its work

Played its part well

Without a scratch on our bodies

And we bid it farewell

Starfish and giant foams

Greet us with a smile

Before our heads go under

We take a last look

At the killing noise 

Of the out of style

The out of style...

1983... A Mermaid I should turn to be, Jimi Hendrix