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Ullyses - Lyrics by Dead Can Dance


Lyrics
<chanting>                              John Francis Dooley                         wipe the sleep from your eyes                            and embrace the light.                    You have slept now for a thousand years                           beneath starless nights.              And now it's time for you to renounce the old ways                           and see a new dawn rise.                                In formet days                             the masks were raised                 when the god came down from off the mountain,                           and a sacrifice was made                        for they knew the day of WRATH                             was fast approaching.                            Just like yesterday...                                before the war.                             John Francis Dooley,                             the scapegoat has run                          all our sins are disowned.                           And now it's time for you                             to take off thy mask                            and cross the Rubicon!                             If you and I were one                        within the eyes of our designs,                           it would still not change                           the fact of our leaving.                           For tonight we must leave                         with the first gentle breeze.                    For the Isles of Ken we are assailing!                       Just like Ullyses, on an open sea                                 On an odyssey                             of self-discovery...

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