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A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Awake with open eyes
A drift upon the night
And miles away from land

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A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Ante meridiem
Too late to end it now
Too early to start again

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Soon the morning, it will arrive
Can I begin another day?
Whilst this old day is still alive
Refusing to be put away

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No sleep tonight
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Like a beast awaits its faith
Laid here with time to kill
The very dead of night
Where time and space stand still

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No sleep tonight
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A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
Nothing will ever change
On the altar of my thought
I sacrifice myself again and again and again

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And again
And again
And again
. . .