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Renaissance
07:17
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RENAISSANCE
I stepped out into sunshine
What do you think I saw?
The whole Carnal Carnival
Frozen in the spirit of a song
Broken Down
Your body in the light
You feel you've got nothing to say so you fall down and pray
But you've been right all along 'till now
It pulls at my eyes
The way a word can taste like thunder
Old iron bit in your mouth
In autumn you know something's gone
And you can't turn your head to look back
No matter how you try
The Blood of Suffering
Will melt into poetry
Still the court fools wait to know
The frescoed ceiling has come down
But I am Malleable
I suffer a loneliness of another kind
Bring me to that new religion
A Renaissance of the heart and the mind
When all the pulpits are empty
Not the poor nor the gentry must kneel to pay homage
Have you ever heard a tantric word
And let it cut you too the bone?
How do you plead? –I don't believe you
Standing in the presence of something that you and I
Both once knew
Gonna get on up now
Get on your feet yeah
Gonna get goin' now
Gonna get faster now
Gonna get careful now
Gonna get braver now
Gonna get stronger now
Gonna get louder now
Gonna get wiser now
Gonna get softer now
Gonna get higher
Take it up now
Get it together now
Get it together, yeah
Come on, together now
From the steep of the deadly drop
Down to the feet of your lover
Before the pillars of your life
Atop the pillars of our lives
Get on up, my darling
Downtown by the station
A cold wind hurries me along
That's when I hear another
Playing his only song
I realize, I realize
The masterpiece and the sound
You are one and so am I
One ear to our hearts and one to the ground
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Hymn
04:01
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Take me down
To the promised land
Where love will understand
And everybody will be broken in demand
Come to stand by their own and not
By their brand
Know that I struggle in this
Belief that man will be proven
In his disbelief
There is no sanctuary, no respite
Not in this world and not in afterlife
So come on up;
take my hand,
take my might
To live in love is not to give up
On the fighting
I will see my promised land prostrate
On the burning sand
When you become who you are
When what you are has been taken
from your hands
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3. |
Love (The First Premise)
04:37
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[An Instrumental Premise]
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White Night
04:41
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We came to see
What it meant to believe
in a heartbeat
And ten thousand sights
Were there to prove my eyes right
tonight
On that one white night
The city was dressed in light
And I thought that I heard
That same old familiar voice
Clowns ascended in the alleyways
Birthday cake was served with tea
that Thursday night
And a Rainbow cascaded
Oh, the work of my brother's hands
left my mouth dry
I turned to my friend
I could see the stars in his head
and, oh! how I envied him!
Why don't I belong?
I didn't come to smear the throng
I didn't want them to be wrong
The queue was long
Steeped in anticipation
You taste Forever
On your breath
When I was led behind the curtain
I would look upon the line on exhibition
I turned my head
On that one white night
The city was dressed in light
And I thought that I heard
That same old familiar voice
calling me
These days I try to think about it
And I try not to give it meaning–
For me
But who is to say
Beauty, when you call, never stays
It’s not meant to be owned by you, or me,
or anyone
But one white night
The city was dressed in light
I thought that I heard
The same old familiar voice
For one white night
The city was dressed in light
And I thought that I heard
That same old familiar voice
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(The) War (Is) Within
06:41
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It's a struggle not to give yourself away
This struggle is your joy; don't throw it away
It's a struggle not to give your life away
Give your body to a cause they will say
Once you make it part of your heart
you will never be the same
There are somethings you will not lose &
some things you cannot replace
When you get what you have, never forget:
what did you trade for this?
You can have a piece–
but don't expect bliss
It's a struggle not to give yourself away
This struggle could be your joy; don't throw it away
All the lights in the sky are stars
Cuz, I know that you can hear me
& that you understand
What can we ever be if all we are
is dying to be free?
Just hold on a little longer
Maybe a time will come when we won't have to
be so strong
I don't know how long–
but we are the stars of somewhere anon
But god! we've got to carry on!
Don't give into fear
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