In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

_{by Jeff Mangum

typeset by Michael Gancz}

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What a beautiful face
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and be gone

from me

Soft and sweet

Let me hold it close and keep it

here

with me

            
And one day we will die

And our ashes will fly                              

from the aeroplane over the sea                                                         

But for now we are young                                                                                                

Let us lay in the sun                                                                                                                                             

            
And count
             
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Love to be

In the arms of all I'm keepin'

here

with me

What a curious life
They have found here tonight
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that sounds from the street

There are lights in the

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Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's
rolling and ringing
through me

Soft and sweet

How the notes all
bend and reach
above the trees

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Now how I remember you

And now we keep where we don't know

What a beautiful face
I have found in

this place <----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

that is

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all 'round the

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And when we meet on a

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I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see

Can't believe how strange it is

to be

anything at all