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what is lost

by All The Forgotten

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1.
face east 03:15
I face east as I stare at the sea and it takes my breath away sun rising over emerald waves and it takes my breath away I waste so much time and I waste my energy I waste so much time and I waste my energy It's so simple, it's so simple, it's so simple, oh, oh, oh I face east as I stare at the sea and I'm planning my escape Remind myself once again I am more than what I make I've been afforded some power and privilege, promise myself to give it back I have fumbled, I've stumbled, I've struggled, but I'm clinging to my path
2.
Dirt underneath fingernails keyboard keys clacking after midnight the tree outside my window the first rays of the dawn's new light calluses building, you hold tighter the exhausted joy at the day's end the smoke signals, sent out for freedom the curve on the arch of justice's bend sleeping soundly under cloudy sky pulling weeds in the morning haze roll that boulder up the hill again through discomfort into higher states resolve is building, you hold tighter the determined will to not fail again the song I'm singing, sent out for freedom to never stop fighting for justice's ends
3.
my mind 03:50
We're locked in to something so much bigger and so much smaller our image, my perception, it has all the power we can be our own ally or our own destroyer maker of nations, obeyer of all the orders resting on our shoulders, we buckle under its weight trained by other interests, programmed for our weakness, destined to our fate the hunger in my stomach, is as real as vegas I can go days for none and be fine but my mood shifts when hungry, my mood swings when tired when is my mind my mind? Let me out. I don't know, where to go, or where I'm going.
4.
Emerald green, hues of blue and gray mountain laurels standing watch of Whitman's grave bees filling the key roll they play rocks rooted 'til it's all swept away branches weaving out and weaving in hammock hanging the cocoon I'm in I am waiting, I am wavering shallow rooted, I am paper thin sift through these feelings pen in hand trying to rewrite my own presence falling off the path, I will get back up, I won't fall back, I won't back down, I'll find my way, I
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would I 02:21
If I could take all the love in the world, and explode into a starry night, would I give myself into abyss? to bring joy to those with the rising sun if I could take the pain in the world, and implode condensed into a tiny rock would I? Would I? Would I? Would I lie on the beach for eternity? lie on the beach for eternity until I crumbled into dust with the world's sorrow, crumbled into dust with the world's sorrow Would I? give myself to save the whole Would I? smash a wall at a thousand miles an hour to destroy the wall I destroy myself, I love the sounds of sparrows gathered, shouting in the morning I hear they kill off others to make their nest destroying complex cultures in their wake some snap their necks, I love their morning song I understand, I understand what is lost I grieve at graves, I understand what is lost I grieve at graves, I understand what is lost I explode with love and rage, I explode with love and rage but refuse to kill or die.

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released April 19, 2015

Recorded by Dave at Gradwell House Studio

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