I'm chasing a shadow, I can't see a thing,
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It's dipping and diving like a bird on the wing,
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And every time I get near it just seems to slip away;
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There's a fighter inside who will never give up,
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We are what we are and it's never enough,
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Write the words in the sand that this man will come again;
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You may run from the sea, and the words disappear,
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Oh you may fall to your knees,
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But the power is here, to survive;
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It's shining again,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man;
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Ah remember the first day of man on the moon,
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The whole world was watching, a whole world in tune,
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It was hard to believe he was the same as me and you;
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Oh look back to the future and look down the years,
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It wasn't all battles and bad news and tears,
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We have brought to this place a desire to have a dream;
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We may reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
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Oh in the darkest hour the spirit of man comes to life;
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It's shining again - the spirit of man,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man;
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And we work - aha - for the good things that we can have,
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Yea we work - aha - for the family and home,
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Yea we work - aha - for the D-Mark and the dollar,
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Yea we work - aha - for the woman on the phone,
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Yea we work - aha - for that moment of elation,
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Yea we work - aha - for a chance to get away,
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And we work - aha - just to let imagination,
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Come inside and take me away;
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We may reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
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Ooh in the darkest hour the spirit of man comes to life;
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It's shining again - the spirit of man,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man,
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It's shining again - the spirit of man.
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The Spirit Of Man
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Chris De Burgh |