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lyrics

There’ll be a fire on the beach
Some chairs set in a circle
Some wine and some blankets
Waiting there in the sand

Where we'll take turns telling stories
About the life of our father
And the woman that he loved

Then we'll burn a dead dog
On the beach to help us remember him
As the sun goes down unnoticed
All the colors fade
And the ground grows cold
And hard as clay
Like our father in his day

When the simulation ends
And we go back to where we’ve always been
Where there are no barking dogs

We'll have to live with what we've done
Like our father's father's father and their sons
We'll cry until we laugh
‘Cause there’s no turning back
From such a wicked tradition

We burn a dead dog
On the beach as we try to remember him
As the moon comes up unnoticed
All the colors fade
And the ground grows cold
And hard as clay
Like our father in his grave

We burn a dead dog
On the beach as we try to remember when
All the fun went way unnoticed

And the sea's not swell
And the tide abhors the moon
And the days grow old
And leave us too
Like the father that we knew

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from Let the Machines, released January 7, 2023
pianos and synths by John Calvin Abney

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