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Great Destroyer
03:35
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Great Destroyer,
Why do you want to see my blood?
All the blessings,
All the love,
They were made to sedate.
They were only a drug.
Are you listening?
Great Disappointer,
Breathe me in, and spit me out.
What's more suffering?
To live with faith
Or to live with doubt?
Are you listening?
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Infinite Pieces
03:50
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Infinite pieces
Alight
In flight
On air
Fuse together
Disintegrate
Fall into
Rise out of
Your head
Ideas are born
To fill our hearts with
Perfect harmony
But as they break
A pious hope
Transforms to tragedy
Infinite pieces
Explode
Erode
Burn down
Ruination of paradise
Creation
Melt into the ground
Ideas are born
To fill our hearts with
Perfect harmony
But as they break
A pious hope
Transforms to tragedy
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Know it all, know it all, know it all.
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
What do you do when you don't have a clue what to do?
What do you do when the one you love most says it's you?
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
What do you do when you lose and the shoe doesn't fit?
What do you say when what's good and what's fair wants to quit?
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
You bet we all got wise
Thanks to your sage advice,
But now you see
That everything's
Not painted black and white.
Know it all.
What do you at the end when you know you were wrong?
Changed what you thought about what it means to be strong?
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
Know it all, know it all, know it all.
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With The Old Breed
04:00
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Tell me not about the truth,
I can see just fine.
Buried in the shallow mud,
Floating in the rain and blood:
To dangerous to save
To young to die.
The little whisper in my ear
Has gone away,
Murdered with a bayonet
Lost to the cold and wet,
Left me to wonder why
And did not say goodbye.
Though it is impossible,
I still believe.
I believe in hell and pain.
I believe in hate and strain.
I believe that Jesus saves,
But I don't know why
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The Island
00:23
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I did my giving.
Did you get it?
It looks like you on the news,
Crying,
Holding a baby.
It's hard sometimes to know who is who.
I sent you a letter.
Did you read it?
I saw you on the news,
Speaking,
Stirring emotions,
But what could you really do?
What do you tell your children about hope?
I am awake lying
With the one I love,
And if you're lucky, you're still on the news,
Dreaming,
Dreaming of mercy.
But I'm here, and you're there, so what can I do?
What do I tell my children about hope?
I sent you for a miracle.
Did you get it?
It looks like you on the news,
Quiet,
Holding your baby.
It's hard to tell if you're fighting or if you are through.
What can you tell your children about hope?
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Leaves
04:06
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My optimism is running out
Like I'm lost in the woods with no voice left to shout.
How do I ignore the flames of the facts
When I get too close for the trees to distract?
Under my sight lines and out of my view,
It's hard to believe what is happening is true.
Will I be caught in the snares of my trust,
Or will I escape being burned by the brush?
The leaves fall.
I see what's ahead with my own two eyes
Every time I get close to the words of the wise,
But then I get back to the stalks and the shade,
And it's always easy to explain it away
The leaves fall
After they die.
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A Presence
02:51
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A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
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Justin Carter New York, New York
Musician, DJ, co-founder of Planetarium, Nowadays, Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday.
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