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Down by the river where the factories lie
And the Westgate stretches across the sky
I've moved north and I've lived south
But I always return to the river mouth
Out from the city all the secrets pour
Through pipes that were laid a hundred years ago
Love and ruin in the straining wells
Rags and bodies and teeth and gold
A woman of science in the tower above
Her laboratory a labour of love
There she worked while the war raged on
Never to marry or she'd lose it all
When I was young I never knew
That I'd be brought back here to you
No stranger thing than how we're drawn
Back to the place from which we're born
And the Westgate stretches across the sky
I've moved north and I've lived south
But I always return to the river mouth
Through pipes that were laid a hundred years ago
Love and ruin in the straining wells
Rags and bodies and teeth and gold
Her laboratory a labour of love
There she worked while the war raged on
Never to marry or she'd lose it all
That I'd be brought back here to you
No stranger thing than how we're drawn
Back to the place from which we're born
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