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I was looking for these lyrics online and couldn't find them, So I figured fuck it, I'll just copy them out and maybe someone else will find that useful. *waves at Google* No guarantees that they are correct :3


Peggy Sue - Shadows

The grey makes you sick
Colour of things gone
Stretched out like a shadow
Stretched out like a shadow
The bed holds your shape
Tempts you back too
Stretched out like your shadow
Stretched out like your shadow

Come away from the window
I’m afraid of what you’ll see
Leave what the future holds
To be happy holding me

Come away from the window
I’m afraid of what you’ll see
Leave what the future holds
To be happy holding me

The night holds his scent
It tempts you back too
Stretched out like his shadow
Stretched out like his shadow
Not afraid of the dark
And of things I do not see
Stretched out in his shadow
Stretched out in his shadow

Come away from the window
I’m afraid of what you’ll see
Leave what the future holds
To be happy holding me

Come away from the window
I’m afraid of what you’ll see
Leave what the future holds
To be happy holding me

Ooooooooooooo…
Ooooooooooooo…
Ooooooooooooo…

When I grow old I’ll go back to the sea
Ten thousand watery hands (out? ask?) to greet me
The water carries my weight in windswept arms
Oh constant friend, carry on
Carry on

"They come of a fine stock, for they are nearly all the descendants of Loyalist soldiers, who fought for the king in the War of Independence, and were rewarded by grants of land in this island. Their one idea has been to keep the stream of their white blood pure, and they have married in and in till nearly all the whites in the island are related by ties of consanguinity. They are now in such a debased condition that they have lost all trace of their origin, and men with good old English and Scotch names have no idea where the cradle of their race is to be found. Probably their apparent want of brain power is due to in-breeding."

L.D. Powles. The Land of the Pink Pearl: Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, 1888, p. 71.

... I also am amused by the follow up line, though it carries a different kind of snark: "Or was it, perhaps, that all of America possessed of intelligence was enlisted in that struggle on the side of independance, and that these who fought for the "Old Régime" had no brains to transmit?"