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Caano Geel

Orphans of an empire

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Lost in translation

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A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They were trapped;

The peoples, the nobles,

The scrag-ends of an empire

At the crag-ends of the world

Once the coolies of Cardiff and Liverpool too,

And once before the warrior Celts,

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They became trapped.

 

Trapped in the wastelands,

Faced with a noland,

Rascals and savages

to the east and west

Oceans and deserts

to the north and south

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They were trapped,

 

For Queen and country,

then King, King, and a another

then again, for Queen and country,

They fought bravely

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They are trapped,

 

Amongst the vagabonds,

found a noland

in the seas,

found a salt-land

and in the deserts,

found a wasteland

 

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They were trapped,

 

In the battles of the lands

in no shadeland,

no rainland, or a windland

nor snowland, or even an iceland

black as cinders, skins are now scorched,

in a burntland.

a lalaland in a nothingland

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They were trapped, without a land

 

Lost their tongues

their roots and ships

no longer distinguishable

you will find them now

in the torus of a digitalland

with barriers for an anythingland

for Queen and country

kept alive in a word

lost in translation

 

A colossal misfortune none their doing,

They were trapped, with land

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