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	A bittersweet piece of nostalgia for the months immediately preceeding a premature thrust into adulthood. Piano driven and very pretty.
	CD: Clap Along ('Cause We Can't)   Label: n/a Credits: by The Ho-Chi-Minhs, additional production by Cameron Brown
	Story Behind the Song This song represents a shift from the Ho-Chi-Minhs' usual sunny demeanor. Musically, it's the most complex thing we have ever done. Recorded in Los Angeles, California in April 2002. Lyrics One thousand years ago I felt the breath of spring Before everything went black It was a perfect song The raging fires of dawn And a feeling I could not turn back It wasn't what I thought it should be More beautiful than life More perfect than the world could pretend Gone as soon as it came with heavy pounding rain Holding her so tightly in the dark One thousand years ago I tasted lips so sweet That there are no words to describe Electric thrill of touch that I had longed so much Perfect eyes reflecting street light shine Explosive minutes stretched into days And sparkled with the heat That burns the wick from sheathing wax It lingers on in me, transcendent memory And it haunts me like a ghost on ice One thousand years ago the world washed away Under April's angry storms Red roses gentle blooms cut down in swathes for you I bled from clutching on the thorns The clouds had draped a shroud on the sun Cast a pall upon the world Like photographs in sepia tone A world come undone, one final hymn-note sung And the shadows on the sanctum door One thousand years ago I felt the breath of spring Now nothing but the winter's cold A chill to saw through bone and thickened blood like stone A jealousy gnawing at my soul I stood for hours face raw from the wind Under dead Redeemer's eyes And mouthed tear soaked apology But guilt cannot divorce white hearts in pained remorse When magic dies upon the shores

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