Spock's Beard -- Long Time Suffering

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I've been listening to this album (2 CDs, actually) a lot lately.

Spock's Beard -- Long Time Suffering from the album "Snow"

I never saw such a place in all my life
This is tomorrow's song
I think I've waited too long.
Can't seem to see through the scraping of the sky
And now it seems so wrong
To think I spent such a ...

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why.

I have a gift that can see beyond the years
The touch so refined
I have transcended all time
My heart can reach through the secret well of tears
And when they all come out
Won't have to spend such a ...

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why
The child awakening to a city in the sky
Spent such a long time suffering
And never knowing why.

I may be only seventeen but I see things
Look at the woman whose head keeps hangin' down
I cannot feel her hate I feel her needing
Somehow I feel like I cannot let her down.

I never saw such a place in all my life
This is tomorrow's song, I waited much too long.
The change can come in the twinkling of an eye
The slave running free;
The salmon floating downstream.
The change can come in a twinkling of an eye
The slave running free, so why'd we spend such a

Long time suffering and crying to the sky
Long time suffering and never knowing why
The child awakening to a city in the sky
Spent such a long time suffering
And never knowing why.

The change can come in the twinkling of an eye.