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The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

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Peter Gabriel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 13
Composer
Drummer
Film Score Composer
Musician
Poet
Singer
Vocalist
Chobham
Surrey
Peter Brian Gabriel
Milk
Shadowed
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Sleepy
Skin
Sucks
Skins
Silk
Tears
Blown
Power
Undone
Earthly
Smooth

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