The Mountain Goats – Tianchi Lake (Guitar)

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Children by the water banks laughing long and loud

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Changbai’s high fine western peaks just beneath the clouds

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Currents in the water churning in their course

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Body of a sea-lion, head just like a horse

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Preacher in the soft brown sand begins to speak his piece

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High winds in the treetops low flying winter geese

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No one taking pictures everybody still

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And then the water sought its course again the way that waters will

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No one at the lakeside now, moon up in the sky

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Night birds in the dragon spruce, moaning long and high

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Backstroking on the surface, moonlight on its face

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Floats the Tianchi Monster, staring into space

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Out around the temple now narcissus in bloom

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Censors packed with sandalwood send smoke into the room

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Children in the sand outside on their hands and knees

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Sketching pictures all day long of stranger things than these