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Shake The Dust

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Shake The Dust

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I walked through the cemetery twice todayGot the feeling that the dead had something to sayThe earth makes roommatesOut of carbon based primatesThe grave was trying to communicateShake the dust, shake the dustWhen the world you used to trustIs in pieces all around youIt's not what you thought it wasShake the dust, shake the dustWhen your empire starts to rustOnly love outlasts the livingTil the dust makes you one of usGermany shot my grandpa downBut he survived to love that same German townThe former soldiers that he metWith his American accentHe only talked to me about the common ground, he saidShake the dust, shake the dustWhen the world you used to trustIs in pieces all around youIt's not what you thought it wasShake the dust, shake the dustWhen your empire starts to rustOnly love outlasts the living‘Til the dust makes you one of usSomeday when I'm on my own deathbedI'll speak the words my own grandfather saidShake the dust, shake the dustWhen the world you used to trustIs in pieces all around youIt's not what you thought it wasShake the dust, shake the dustWhen your empire starts to rustOnly love outlasts the living‘Til the dust and rust will claim the rest of us
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