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Ocean Poems

Song Cycle by Amy Gordon

1. When We’re Gone 10,000 Years
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
When we’re gone 10,000 years and waves still break
Gloriously on this radiant sand,
Gulls soaring, winds howling, mist spraying o’er the port,
Only then will we know if our lives rang true,
When you and I tumbled together amidst all of this blue.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jonathan Talberg (b. 1969), "When We’re Gone 10,000 Years"

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