Clockwork

There is glass between our touch
 Phantom limbs of former love
 And the truth is that I am so terrified
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 The callus is deeper than
 The surface of our skin
 And it takes us twice as long
 Oh it takes us twice as long to heal
 Lift up the ground to see
 The system of roots beneath
 Gears turn endlessly
 To bring the world back to life
 Like clockwork, when it dies
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 The cadence of beating hearts
 The click of its moving parts
 Grows louder and louder
 From this restless earth
 Future gardens
 Wait patiently below
 Somehow we smell them
 Blossom through the snow
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 Still unsatisfied
 We chase what we're denied
 As generations wait
 We can't resist the taste
 Of possibility
 Gears turn, endlessly
 To bring us back to life again
 Like clockwork, we begin