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A Mistake
03:54
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You sailed away our dreams on vapor trails
For a chance to lay your hands upon a grail
For a price you say well-worth the casualties
But this cup you claim, it’s as fake as the devil’s tale
You can’t ignore this fate
You’ve come a long, long way here much too late
As our time ends you simply put your hands to your face and say:
God help me, I think we have made a mistake
This place we stay, carved out by hand grenades
And that bench we saved once stood where children played
Right where you lay, my son and daughter prayed
As a fire ablaze sent both of them off to their graves
You can’t ignore this fate
You’ve come a long, long way here much too late
As our time ends you simply put your hands up to your face and say:
God help me, I think we have made a mistake
Nothing I’ve done, nothing I’ve said was on my own account
It’s just what I have read
From early on I heard the call
I hear your voice, Lord, and this is what your message says:
You can’t control your fate
You come to know yourself here much too late
And as your time ends you simply throw your hands to your face and pray:
God help me, I think I have made a mistake
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Crosshairs to the Dove
03:01
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Settling down with a shot in my sights
Drawing deep breathes to keep my heartbeat so slight
But it’s never enough when taking these crosshairs to the dove
So, should I let it go?
Settling down with this thought in my mind:
There’s not many ways to get caught and survive
So, it’s never a bluff when taking these crosshairs to the dove
So, should I let it go?
Listless and low with the lights down and the bolt locked in the door
Too terrified to make out shapes in the rain
And plan ways to make my escape through the stairwell in the floor
Settling down with this thought in my mind:
There’s not many ways to get caught and survive
So, it’s never a bluff when taking these crosshairs to the dove
So, should I let it go?
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Father's Hymn
03:10
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Ten degrees above the freeze and I can’t feel a thing
That’s when my father’s hymn creeps in like a dream and I sing:
Take what you want, take what you need
Lie to get by, lie to get fame
Oh, for shame!
Do what you want, do what you will
Stab your best friend, kill all you can while you can
Silk sheets, an autumn breeze, walks beneath the moonlight
Snip, snails, and puppt tails
Things to bring a smile and I sigh
Take what you want, take what you need
Lie to get by, lie to get fame
Oh, for shame!
Do what you want, do what you will
Stake all this land, rape all you can while you can
While you think you can
Take what you want, take what you need
Lie to get by, lie to get fame
Oh, for shame!
Do what you want, do what you will
Stab your best friend, kill everything while…
It’s ten degrees below the freeze and I can feel nothing
That’s when my father’s hymn creeps in like a dream and I dream
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Life of Lament
03:44
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If you live through the life of lament for all you wanted to be
Would you construe, or just reinvent, the world that you wanted to see
The sky belies the sound that the ground must make
When rolling around in our shallow graves
But it won’t quiet down just for me
Certain merchants and most business men battle to bring it all in
While the rest of the blessed of us sorely pretend that we’ll still have something to win
The sky belies the sound that the ground must make
When rolling around in our shallow graves
But it won’t quiet down not for all these throngs in chains
And it won’t quiet down just for me
credits
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The Face You Save
02:51
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Apace
Retrace steps
Stumbling back to the burning fortress
Distressed
You shed the light
Then grin with the sin of your newfound foresight
This face you save
It knows the doubt but shows without
These thoughts as they rise and fall
With the face that you’ve saved today
As such
With much chagrin
We ask where in God’s name you have been
Stalling
But you can’t say why
Fraught with the thoughts of a hopeful housefly
This face you save
It knows the doubt but shows without
These thoughts as they rise and fall
With the face that you’ve saved
On the ground, groveling
Down this narrow ledge
You hedge your bets
To point them them out:
The likeliest of the rest
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Come my son, on bended knee
You are the last leaf of the tree
Winter's come to take from me
The breath that life once gave to me to keep
So go my son, grow old to be
The hope for all the world to see
These vines grow tight around this tree
And drag me down into the arms of sleep
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And so I’ve said it
And lay the decision to my hands
Froze in a middle that makes no sense
No point and talking down from this
Spare but a tremor, keep pretense
There is no potential from this point, hence:
Fall in a river that laps hands
Smile when it finally releases
Wave for his sake or his benediction
Turn as he calls for your service
Run when he yells fast and nervous
No one believes, it’s all sighs and fictions
Tell him what he needs to hear
“Son, save those tears for someone who’ll listen”
And damn You for what You have done
You’ve spared Your son and taken my soul from me.
Fall in a river that laps hands
Smile when it finally releases
Wave for his sake or his benediction
Turn as he calls for your service
Run when he yells fast and nervous
No one believes, it’s all sighs and fictions
Wipe your face and bat your eyes
But nobody help him because nobody helps him
Oh, how you’ve failed, though hardly tried
But nobody helps him when nobody helps him
Fall in a river that laps hands
Smile when it finally releases
Wave for his sake or his benediction
Turn as he calls for your service
Run when he yells fast and nervous
No one believes, it’s all sighs and fictions
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