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The Cure
05:15
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They said that there is something wrong with your mind
Your not sure what it is or what they’ll find
But as your walking through your life, it feels unreal and it startles you
Everything you once knew comes unglued
Chorus
And you know something’s missing
The sun’s disappeared
In the still, dark moments
The house feels hollow and bare
Mechanical movements that you learned so well become servitude
So you began to wrestle with notions of truth
But the specialists assessed and examined your mind, to diagnose you
They locate the disease and they prescribe
Chorus
Don’t you know that
They’ve got a cure for everything
And if you still feels ill
You must not be listening
You pop the pills, does just as your told, hoping for the best
Weeks go by indeed somethings do change
A numbness creeps upon you, you don’t feel much of anything
Your mouth is dry, your hands are trembling, there’s a vacancy
Chorus
In your heart
You try to push aside
Because the specialists
Insist that your doing fine
But you know something missing
You know something’s missing
you know
Something’s missing
Interlude
Lying on the grass
You smells decay
On this October day
The sun is warm,
Colors burst alive
You meet them with open eyes
You find a stone well
Drink deeply there
’Til your sated and serene
A breeze sweeps by
Bringing sweet release
From the bondage of self
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2. |
Nothing More
04:17
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It’s early in the evening,
the stars come out one by one
and I say, “how do you do?”
I wonder have we met before,
Do they know something more,
do they know what’s in store,
in their infinite and distant wisdom?
Chorus
But they say nothing more. (X2)
I wander through dim light.
It’s cold outside, I pick up my stride
and journey where this path will take me.
Gazing into the faces of the people who go gliding by
we are like ghosts traveling thru a long night.
Chorus
And we say nothing more (x2)
Now later in the night
there are so many stars, too many to count.
They reach out through the endless space.
I wonder are they lonely as well
as they travel along this vast universe?
Do they know I’m gazing awestruck at them?
Chorus
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Prayer
04:15
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Dear lord in this time of darkness help us see the darkness
Dear lord help us to not pretend no more pretending
Dear lord may our gaze be defenseless and unshardable
teach us the piety of the open eye [X2]
Dear lord in this time of darkness
may we be unafraid to mourn and together and hugely
may dignity lose its scaffolding
faces crumble like bricks
dear lord let grief come to grief
and then o lord help us to see
the bees yet in the lavender
the spokes of sunlight down through the oaks
the bees yet in the lavender
and the sleep-opened face of the beloved
and the afternoon all around her
and her small freckled hands
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Holding Faith
04:07
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Well the spectacle man from the television screen is King
And the coronated Queen who was prophesied to gleam got torn apart
The hues of red and blue have become the only things we see
With one side burning red and the other feeling blue,
as the management reconfigures all the rules
I believe that things are not really what they seem
A narrow backlash from deplorable minds that only hate
Well the spectacle man (the spectacle man) is king
And the spectacle itself (the spectacle itself) has been revealed
The ground underneath (the ground underneath) is shaking
The pretense of the stories we were led to believe
now shudder exposed with no reprieve
I believe that things are not really what they seem
A narrow backlash from deplorable minds that only hate
But the many who’ve forgotten what it means to belong
As we hide in tribes that keep us from rising stronger
Unless we find a common dream
Cut through all the broken schemes
Meet out at the seams of uncertainty
Holding faith in the darkness of mystery
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Marlo Pedroso Boston, Massachusetts
Marlo Pedroso has been making music since he banged pots and pans as a wee tyke. Currently he plays in a rotating collective of musicians called Buzz n' Howl. Previously he's play in Boston bands Sinnet, Blessed Unrest, and Bastard Sound. This site features some of his personal compositions and collaborations. ... more
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