Toward the docks where weight and boredom
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They arrive, bellies heavy with fruit
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They come from the end of the world
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Carrying with them vagabond ideas reflecting blue skies
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Trailing a peppery scent of unknown lands
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And endless summers where you live almost naked
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I, who my whole life have known
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I'd like to scrub away this gray
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Take me to the end of the earth
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Take me to wonderland
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It seems to me that misery
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Would hurt less in the sun
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In the bars at dusk
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When we talk girls and love, a glass in hand
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I lose the sense of things and suddenly my mind
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Lifts me and sets me down, a marvelous summer
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Where I see, arms outstretched, love that like a madman
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Runs at me and I hang on the neck
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When the bars close, when the sailors
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I still dream till morning
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Take me to the end of the earth
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Take me to wonderland
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It seems to me that misery
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Would hurt less in the sun
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One fine day on a creaking tub
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To set off I'll work down in the coal hold
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Taking the route that leads to my childhood dreams
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To distant islands where nothing matters
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Where languid girls steal your heart
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While braiding, I'm told, those leis
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I'll run away, leaving my past behind
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With no luggage and my heart set free
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Take me to the end of the earth
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Take me to wonderland
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It seems to me that misery
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Would hurt less in the sun
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Take me to the end of the earth
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Take me to wonderland
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It seems to me that misery
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Would hurt less in the sun