Our System
by OMD

Album: English Electric (2013)
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  • Across the Universe
    Our system is expanding
    Crystal velvet void
    Stained by the disease

    Empty words and deeds
    Pleading to the ether
    Perfect wires and steel
    Pierced the cold abyss

    Across the Universe
    We're reaching out to Heaven
    Only to perceive
    No-one there at all

    Every world we reach
    Perfect, pure and clean
    Every word we preach
    Spoken to deceive

    Across the Universe
    We're broken and we're bleeding
    Pointing to the stars
    Stolen by degrees

    Taken to the edge
    Beautiful, serene
    Save us from ourselves
    Delivered from this end
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