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Hum
03:19
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I stood at the edge of a vast ocean and imagined the dissolution of the physical self
That moment confirmed just how trivial the concept of identity really was
Closed my eyes tight and conjured the moment I dissolved
Becoming one with all the molecules as the journey begins again
Ascending into the atmosphere
I could hear the liberty bells ring out and my heartbeat quickened
The atmosphere the beginning of ascent
We climb and climb and then we are met
With joyous song and long lost love
Im afraid that this will quickly pass
And that these moments will slip from my grasp
But I’m humming along til the rain dances come and we descend again onto the earth
and the cycle begins again
Cycle is sacred and inescapable
Cycle is sacred
Cycle is sacrament
Taste and know
Taste and forget
Strange stare strangers stare
I’m talking to the sky again
Off my meds again
But I just want so badly to be free
I’m still looking for signs and wonders
Still wanting to believe
But with the chemicals off balance
and a history of detachment from the actuality of existence
I just don’t trust these senses
I’m still trapped inside this body
Shackled to this skin
Assembled with the remnants
Of a hundred thousand better men
The atmosphere the beginning of ascent
We climb and climb and then we are met
With joyous song and long lost love
I haven’t really loved in so long I think ive forgotten what it means
But I’m humming along til the rain dances come and we descend again onto the ground
Cycle is sacred and inescapable
Cycle is sacred
Cycle is sacrament
Taste and know
Taste and forget
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Canary Yellow
04:00
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Hey you, CANARY YELLOW
You are the brightness and the shine
Tunnel vision tunnel living
Gave my spark to the darkness inside
Cut from Maker’s Hem
Cut with strong lines in the image of G-d
Protected image. In it I am defined
Built for heaven I will climb
I did my best to play the part
Constructed a persona to protect my pink heart
So tired of always pretending
But there’s no mercy for those falling apart
Speak up, CANARY YELLOW
The other voices are at it again
‘Chin up, pull yourself together
There was a time when men were men’
Beauty adorns your feathers
An indicator of your mysticality
As you sing the virtues of freedom
I worship the strong consistency of captivity
Built myself a cage called it masculine
Spared from emotion and free from whim
I built this cage I am a man
I built this cage with my own hands
I am a man I am a man
In tears I knelt
At the location of your ascension
Drew a triangle on the ground
The symbology of perfection
In the distance I heard that sound
The sound of machine guns firing
Of fighters fighting
Of warriors waring
Of heroes dying
The soothing sound of none surviving
So i took the key
And I locked myself back in again
I know you carry truth that you dare not speak
The RIGHT is coming
Hide everything you love
Hey you, CANARY YELLOW
You were the song and the movement
When I speak, I spit stutter and slur
You took the words right out of my throat
Hey there, CANARY YELLOW
The light at the end seems fading
Where did you go and what am I?
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the fanatics were patrolling the Northern Road
so i ran all the way home
i won’t be so young again
from now on i will never be young again
ive been thinking about what you said
“to be young is to believe and to believe is to pretend
if you find hope you’ll lose it down here
theres no way to redeem yourself down here”
i cant be all things to all men
i cant be that person again
i cant be all things to all men
i forgot where i started but i know where ill end
dig a hole in the ground
and when you hit rockbottom
dig on dig on
down
ive been scratching it out
with the local whores
just like jesus did
ill collect your taxes
like your preacher did
i find myself head against the wall again
while detaching from the religions of man
returning to the primal Christic form
i won’t be pharisaical no more
i remember that time in florida so well
went looking for the spirit
i remember standing still
while all the other people fell…
i was so young back then
i was soooo young back then
i was so young back then
not a wrinkle on my Pentecostal skin
…josh bowed in ecstacy
for all the world to see
he didnt stop for 15 days
the lord works in mysterious ways
i won’t be so young again
i won’t be soooo young
i cant be young again
at least not in this same old skin
i was an idea in the mind of a god
placed in a cocoon that time destroyed
i was fabric cut from the hem
tattered and waiting to be again
i was standing where i should have fell
i was standing where i should have fell
they knew that i was bound for the fire
im passing
into something different
im losing weight but gaining sight
im slipping out of this shell
Out of the confines
of the confines of this shell
Ive found that there’s so much more
so I lay this old husk down in hopes of becoming more
i dissolve my very being in hopes of becoming something useful
something useful
something of service to the Lord
i woke up in the dirt next to calvins grave
not knowing how long i had been sleeping
i quickly ran my hands along the shape of my face
and found the vessel had remained the same
but what it contained had seemingly been completely changed
and i no longer felt the lick of damnations flames
i know i will one day walk that Northern Way
ill be the same light just rearranged
ill be the same light
i cant be all things to all men
i cant be all things to all men
i cant be all things to all men
i cant be all things to all men
i cant be all things to all men
i wont be that person again
i cant be all things to all men
i wont try to be anything again
and you can find me there
in the court of ghosts
with fiery tongues
and sackcloth clothes
and ill gather in that forever song
look for me
and you’ll find nothing
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4. |
Red Heifer
05:01
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“you’re so special
and we love you”
Hey, why does it seem
that the peddlers of peace
Feel the need to carry
such heavy artillery?
Hey,
Did you hear your king beckon to you from on high
Like a lightning strike giving life
“Stand back and stand bye”
Hey, All dressed up
Proud hero pretend
Amped up on revelations
And ushering the end
“bring forth the red heifer
Behold a miracle of modernity”
Affluent businessmen fulfill the prophecy
Rebuild the temple and
Ready the sacrifice
Whether by science or the hands of god
Come armageddon, no matter the $$$
A new telling of the vagrant messiah of Galilee
Stripped of context and empathy
Wrapped in a fabric print of ol’ glory
Hes armed to the teeth
in defense of wealth and Lady Liberty
They gathered in mass outside the grand cathedral to lift up the holy name and dispute the claim
Demanding the turncoats inside to take a stand
Lest the thieves steal away the land
“All hail the great winner”
They chant and circle fervently
Trapped in orbit around the pull of His conceit
Transfixed in awe and wonder of his total supremacy
He is the everything
To the unwashed mass, He proclaims
“I know you are hurting. I know your pain”
Convinced that He understands just how they feel
while wasting away on minimum wage and microwave meals
“yeah, I know your pain”
We will walk together
Just await my sign
You’ve put in the effort
The hours of time
You’ve unlocked secrets
This knowledge, divine
And now your mission is
To ensure these are the end times.
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