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Order
03:37
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we guard
the space
the sound
become
the few
the found
we're commanded to give order to the plot
or the foreshadow for naught
beauty not for sale
like digging out the waves
it seethes
it speaks
it leaves
ressentement of being
it commands you to give over the fight
all the angles can't be right
beauty not for sale
the kid throws the crown
kingdom falling down
at the lake
it'll be okay
they decide
through their crow's foot gaze
in the now
an escape.
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2. |
Get out the Downvote
02:39
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the brother you'd keep
has been proven wrong
been tagged in the teeth
and purged along
get out the downvote
what if
you're wrong?
foundation preserved
come iron age
brought under the third
cold, icy wave
spin out the deadbolt
and forbid a power sage your
cocktail revolt
you know not what you do
you know not whom you are
you know not whom you've lost.
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Carpet of Streamers
02:24
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cops helping revelers pick up the street
and somewhere a program proceeds
can't believe everything I've seen
it secret, holy and fleet
we made up
we made up a legacy
you gave up
you gave up reality
so how is the madness of the free?
I'm taking it stoically
and decades
and decades - they proceed
they drag me off screaming through history
the present ain't what it used to be.
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4. |
Wheels within Wheels
02:50
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take heed, armies of power-starving lions
four heads
green eyes
that pore over our minds
take heed
take heed
all said, the virgin never lifts her gaze
braving the smoke to hang over our grave
wheels within wheels
within war
in peace
I took a vow
that I would obey you
and obeyed
I stumbled out
of formation
and obeyed
oh God
my God
oh God.
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6. |
Tributes of the Magi
06:25
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following a star
following a star
I love you, child
I love you
I follow, child
I follow
a gift of frankincense
gift of frankincense
I love you, Lord
I love you
I follow, Lord
I do
this glimpse of innocence
oh, I accept
I love you, God
I love you
I follow, God
I follow
we love you, God
we love you
we love you, Lord
we do
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
we love you, child
this God is good.
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7. |
Riding to Chautauqua
02:03
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Jesus is a savior
I concede
Jesus the redeemer
He can see us raising a temple under the sun
praise Him to kingdom come
riding on a rail
past those towns
of envy and betrayal
part them clouds!
we gather as brothers under Your name
grant us awakening
Jesus, you saved my life.
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8. |
Tower of Rubble
03:04
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fascinating in our folly walk
from an Eastern dawn
to the center
of our new world
tower
up to the sky
you are welcome and owned
as a subject of Rome
passionate begging something more
than a holy bore
that entangles
oh, laugh in one tongue
build up
right to the Lord
comes the consequence of power
falling vapor in a shudder
take me whole!
I can offer what I wanted
will You show me all I'll never know?
mystery isn't human height
never crystalized
it is other, further
so I labor
grateful
bent to the earth
I can feel your unknowns
in my humblest home
under heaven.
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9. |
Electrocide
04:43
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the lecture began as a show tune
he has a program and it will save you
crumbling past, surgical gratitude
cannot tell what is wrong
obedient child under curfew
citizen rolls through the drive-thru
general claims he knows the magnitude
none of us own the bomb
denegate precedent
at your own expense
you don't suspect
your power's checked
he's missing the lesson: Liberty
he won't forgive you if you disagree
E.M.P. waves: safe at no altitude
patriots mock the news
president
he's a riot
when he's victimized
his answers try
to close your eyes
his answers try
to strike you blind
you're next in line
electrocide
don't go crying
when heroes die
they're trying to conquer history
no one will miss you when they wipe it clean
does greatness fall after all?
does greatness fall after all?
hush.
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10. |
The Living Daylight
02:58
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fool, you are not judge
you are dust from dust
Satan offered a glimpse of the ledger
living daylight falls over a horror
living daylight goes on
living daylight goes on
living daylight goes on.
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Stainglass
02:35
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may I turn on the radio?
turn me into an audience
my body is glass and
you stained me
my body is glass and
you stained me
you saved me
you saint me
contain me
my captors obey me.
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12. |
A Little Morning Crawl
02:18
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it was delicate
and very small
and mostly bone
and the arm
stuck out of the earth
there long alone
it wore a glove
had worn a glove
whiff of the cavalry
Europe at peace
the leather glove
the leather
fingers raised and curved
with an affect
the officer
amazed
pleaded squeamishness
and pinched his leg
to kill a fly
to kill a fly
I am the cavalry
Europe at peace.
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The Hardest Stone
04:20
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I'm asking for the power
You know it's hard
what good deeds?
pride deceives
shake our rebellious house
a noble shout:
"I believe"
why not me?
why?
when Justice called me
she never asked my name
sweet Justice nodded
not having seen my face
Pietas draws me
out to Your open grave
Pietas draws me
into her hard embrace.
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tonight we fly
over the houses
the streets and the trees
over the dogs down below
they'll bark at our shadows
as we float by on the breeze
tonight we fly
over the chimney tops
skylights and slates
looking to all your lives
and wondering why
happiness is so hard to find
over the doctor, over the soldier
over the farmer, over the poacher
over the preacher, over the gambler
over the teacher, over the rambler
over the lawyer, over the dancer
over the voyeur, over the builder and the destroyer,
over the hills and far away
tonight we fly
over the mountains
the beach and the sea
over the friends that we've known
and those that we now know
and those who we've yet to meet
and when we die
will we be
that disappointed
or sad
if heaven doesn't exist
what will we have missed
this life is the best we've ever had.
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Beatitudes/Lamblike
02:38
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shall not by bread alone
but by the word of God
live true and righteously
live everlastingly
blessèd are the poor in sprit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessèd are the hungering for
righteousness, their reward
shall not by bread alone
but by the word of God
live true and righteously
live everlastingly
blessèd are the merciful ones
for they shall obtain their due mercy
blessèd are the pure-hearted ones
clear to them, mystery
shall not by bread alone
but by the word of God
live true and righteously
live everlastingly
blessèd are laborers at peace
children of God known through the ages
blessèd are they mourning the lost
they shall have reunion
(why can I not believe?
why can I not believe?
why can I not believe?
why can I not believe?)
blesséd are the poor in spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
that He raises up the meekest
(I would like to believe)
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16. |
Senior in the Art Room
06:06
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senior in the art room
senior in the art room
I hope your hands
are painting me
calming eyes of softened clay
stop and wander to my way
my thoughts are blown
to Natalie
and I can't like anyone else
never look away
pounding as I gaze at you
trembling heart divide in two:
one for you
and one for me
lines I sketch digress to you
idle chatter singing to
the day I met
my lioness
and I can't like anyone else
never look away
now I'd expect to have regrets
but I've been grinning since we met
see your looks
see my charms
glancing as we sit around
at the corners of your mouth
-- to blanket you
in both my arms!
you are the breathing in my day
into you I'm blown away
away
away
some way
a way.
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17. |
Listener
08:39
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hoping for that check to cash
waiting like the end of mass
waiting on a sense of past
of mission
listen
the eddy is turning
listen
the river unlearning
maybe I'm real this time
maybe I'm real this time
Jaime, you're out of your mind
I caught you laughing
relieved
we can still believe
we are family
giving our light to the photograph
funny how they photograph
memory on the attack
something's gotta bridge the gap
listen
maybe it settles the mind
maybe it settles the mind
maybe there's nothing behind
just now and nothing
relieved
here we stand, at least
we are family
giving our light to the photograph
giving our light to the photograph
here we are now in tomorrow's past.
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