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Down by the river where the factories lie
and the Westgate stretches across the sky
iâve Live north and iâve Moved south
but I always return to the river mouth
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Out from the city all the secrets pour
through the pipes that we laid a hundred years ago
love and ruin in the strainign wells
rags and bodies and teeth and gold
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a woman of science in her tower above
her laboratory s labour of love
there she works while the war raged on
never to marry or sheâd lose it all
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when I was young I never knew
that iâd be brought back here to you
no stranger thing than how weâre drawn
back to place from which weâre born