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Past Shadows
04:27
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I’ve got a secret
Don’t you want to know
How to kill a shadow puppet?
I wrote it down in speckletone
But no one
No one could hear it
No
Child
Mind your broken armor
A lover’s song could save you
A lover’s song could tear your heart
Child
Don’t rush onto the front lines
Mountains meditate and
Rivers think for miles
Wheels turn
Machines are moving
Through day and night
The writing in the sky
Falls behind the light
The overtones of dreams with no
Shadows haunt me
Oh
Child
Mind your broken armor
A lover’s song could save you
A lover’s song could tear your heart
Child
Don’t rush onto the front lines
Mountains meditate and
Rivers think for miles
I know you
I am you
I know you
I am you
The weight of light
Its fallen down
Now we can see
More than we wanted
More than we need
Its fallen down
No we can see
Its fallen down
Its fallen down
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2. |
Stay Low
07:44
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Call you out
Gonna call you out
Call you out
Gonna call you out
With a book of matches
You create a straw man
To dance the dance
Smoke and mirrors
Play the part
Codify and co-opt
God
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low, stay low
Stay low to the ground
This is now our children’s burden
They lit the fields on fire
Left us to put it out
And when we ask for compensation,
A solid no
Or so I am told
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low
Stay low, stay low
Stay low to the ground
This is now our children’s burden
They lit the fields on fire
Left us to put it out
And when we ask for compensation,
A solid no
Or so I am told
Here at this fault
We plant our own
And on their backs
We cleanse our souls
Here we rest
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Young American
Tell me what you’re feeling
Or can you feel at all
Watching sunshine melt
From the ceiling?
Blue and gold
In broken colors it’s ephemeral
Fall from space into time
Moon rise
Sent in a vision
From holy mountain
Red lights
Blinking and beating
Looking for pulse
Air waves
Alive underwater
Waiting to breathe
So I say
Young American
Do you know what’s missing?
What’s taken from your home?
And kept from waking up
Kept in plastic
Stored as freight
Until the ark has made its way
Fall from space into time
Moon rise
Sent in a vision
From holy mountain
Red lights
Blinking and beating
Looking for pulse
Air waves
Alive underwater
Waiting to breathe
So I say
Young American
How you feeling?
Young American
Oh
Can you feel like this?
Can you feel like this?
Can you feel like this?
Ohhhhhhh
Fall from space
Fall from space
Fall from space
Fall from space into time
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C’est la vie
I thought it spoke out loud this time
Did you hear
Can you hear it?
It happens all the time
But never makes a sound
So I dress it up and down
Try to fill a formless hole
Did you see
Can you see it?
I saw it
I heard it call me
When we finally fill the hole
The sun is setting
Gone down
Down
A mountain peak threads needle hole
But keeps on asking
Where’s down?
Down?
When it calls
I answer each and every time
Did you feel
Can you feel it?
Yeah, I make music
To understand my soul
Like an owl in the night
It can always root you out
But will you sing
Can you sing it?
I’ll sing it
It knows me all too well
When we finally fill the hole
The sun is setting
Gone down
Down
A mountain peak threads needle hole
But keeps on asking
Where’s down?
Down?
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