The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

Album: The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (2021)
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  • You were gone, the dark journey there
    Leaves no returning
    It's fruitless for me to mourn you
    But, who can help mourning?

    To think of life, that did laugh on your face
    In the beautiful past left so desolate now
    When you've seemed immortal
    So sweet it did we
    Heaven's halo around you

    Earth's hope to deceive
    You were the fairest and dearest
    Where many were fair, to my heart you were nearest
    The year has it's winter as well as it's May
    The sweetest leavers and the fairest decay

    The nearer the fountain, more pure the stream flows

    To think of life, that did laugh on your face
    In the beautiful past left so desolate now
    When you've seemed immortal
    So sweet it did we
    Heaven's halo around you

    Around you
    Earth's hope to deceive
    Around you
    Around you

    The nearer the fountain, more pure the stream flows Writer/s: Andre De Ridder, Damon Albarn, John Clare, Simon Tong
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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