that served me as a loincloth
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I was just twenty
and we were a hundred and twenty
after the one we followed
and I was losing my innocence
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a little more tenderness
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but it wasn't Arcole
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it was the hour you regret
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but I swear that hearing
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it's enough to make you
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armies of impotent men
that since then this voice
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I hear it all the time
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this voice that reeked of garlic
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it's the voice of nations
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and it's the voice of blood
and since then, every woman
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at the moment of giving in
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in my too thin arms
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all the next ones in the world
and when I'm not delirious
that it's more humiliating
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one day I'll become legless
anyway one of those things
where I'll never again be
the next one, the next one