“Safe in the womb of an everlasting night,
You find the darkness can give the brightest light.
Safe in your place deep in the earth,
That's when they'll know what you were really worth.”

—  Nick Drake

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Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)

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British singer-songwriter 1948–1974

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