You didn't ask for
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How fast eleven years fly
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Death doesn't dazzle the eyes
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On the walls of our towns
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Black with beard and night
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Nobody seemed to see you
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People walked blind to you
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But at curfew time
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Had written under your photos
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And then one of you
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Happiness to those who'll survive
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I die without hate inside
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Goodbye pain and pleasure
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Goodbye light and wind
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On our triumphant steps
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They were twenty-three
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When the rifles blossomed
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Their hearts before their time
With living to the point of dying
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France as they fell