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The train passes under bridges. Smoke climbing high on either side conceals the men teeming below.

Flying black through the mountains, the curtains part on a private car. A diamond eye shines in failing light with the horrid glow of an enormous mind.

The regretful drunk slurs: "I tried to tell you these things, but they came out uncertain and slow, like a hobo washing his face at the river's edge under a bridge."

The shocked witness recalls with shame: "We used to write songs about blood (a little tongue-in-cheek) and never really cared what they really mean. Es wird ein guter Leben gewesen!"

Solemn townspeople: "We have heard of the train passing through town. When it does, the men all freeze where they stand and watch it roll past without a sound. And its thick leg of smoke hangs over the fields for a day."

1...2...3.
1...2...3.
1...2...3.
1...2...3.

Incoherent testimony of the attack: "Crashing chains and pounding brains! The cars unfold (but your backs were turned to face away)...!"

"Bright bandoleers across night sky, arcs of light and we're reeling blind."

"Engulfed in flames, those burning braids...! What a beautiful night, what a golden surprise!"

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from A Diamond Eye Shines In Failing Light, released April 30, 2010

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