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GUEST,Alex Davies Lyr Req: Caffeinated Warriors (Antje Duvekot) (13) Lyr Req: Caffeinated Warriors by Antje Duvekot 23 Feb 19


Has anyone worked out the lyrics to the wonderful song Caffeinated Warriors by Antje Duvekot? I'm about 95% there (I'm particularly proud of cracking the reference to Antoine Saint-Exupery) but a few lines are still eluding me.

This is what I have so far:

I settle in rooms permeated by the stories of a million strangers
And their ghosts dwell in the fixtures and the walls
And they disappear like the mist as it rises off the highway
And the nights are too quiet and too loud
And they tug at your dreams in the middle of the day

Is the devil you know any better than the devil that you don't?
The stage lights and the miles will never show
The riches I bringing you are nothing but trinkets
Mere currency between strangers
And if you loved me you would let me go

Goodbye Antoine Saint-Exupery and all you intrepid wanderers
Goodbye Amelia and Hemmingway, you broken hearted explorers
Goodbye        ????   you caffeinated warriors
Goodbye, goodbye to you

I traded my course for fields of unfinished cathedrals
To the pulsing heady calling of the southern cross
I watched it pour like a flood on the surface of Lake Eyre
And talking to my GPS I'm talking to God
I suspect it may be written in my blood

These castles of sand now stand beyond the lantern
As the crow flies on the trail to Evangeline
Maybe we wore our hearts too freely
On the nights when we worked out
The marquees of that fleeting drop of time

You hunters of lightening, chasers of snow
You’ve been orbiting light for the rose(?)
It's a foolhardy dance and god only knows

Goodbye Antoine Saint-Exupery and all you intrepid travellers
Goodbye Virginia and Woody Guthrie you weary unravellers
Goodbye ???? you damned and dark-haired ramblers
Goodbye, goodbye to you

Goodbye Hank Williams, you damned and empty-handed gamblers
Goodbye, goodbye


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