Perfect Life (Grand Union Mix)

[00:00.87] When I was 13 I had a sister for 6 months
[00:05.93] She arrived one February morning
[00:08.66] Pale and shell shocked, from past lives I could not imagine
[00:15.16] She was 3 years older than me
[00:18.21] But in no time we became friends
[00:22.79] We'd listen to her mix tapes
[00:26.03] Dead Can Dance, Felt, This Mortal Coil
[00:34.22] She introduced me to her favorite books
[00:38.07] Gave me clothes, and my first cigarette
[00:43.62] Sometimes, we would head down to Blackbirds Moor
[00:49.53] To watch the barges on Grand Union in the twilight
[00:55.44] She said, "The water has no memory"
[01:02.23] (The water has no memory)
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[01:09.09] (The water has no memory)
[01:12.69] (The water has no memory)
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[03:41.76] For a few months, everything about our lives was perfect
[03:46.63] It was only us, we were inseparable
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[04:01.34] Later that year my parents separated
[04:04.44] And my sister was rehoused with a family in Dollis Hill
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[04:11.52] For a month, I wanted to die
[04:13.97] I missed her every day
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[04:21.38] But, gradually
[04:26.40] She passed into another distant part of my memory
[04:31.24] Until I could no longer remember her face
[04:36.71] Her voice
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[04:42.07] Even her name
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[05:15.36] We have got
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[05:22.07] We have got the perfect life
[05:28.77] We have got
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[05:35.33] We have got the perfect life
[05:42.00] We have got (we have got)
[05:48.63] We have got the perfect life
[05:55.30] We have got (we have got)
[06:02.02] We have got the perfect life
[06:08.53] We have got (we have got)
[06:15.34] We have got the perfect life
[06:22.04] We have got (we have got)
[06:29.31] We have got the perfect life
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