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Overture
00:55
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2. |
Vessels
04:22
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I saw in you something I knew
Long before I saw your face
Something that burns but leaves no visible trace
Your arms became my home
Like others have before
Like wasp’s nests at first frost
Someday all these vessels fall apart
Dark are the days, they’ve been so for so long
With no star to guide us, fear walks close beside us
No one to point the way
From the night to the day
Like wasp’s nests at first frost
Someday all these vessels fall apart
Some people pretend
That they’ve got something more than their wealth to defend
They hide away behind reasons and war
Till there are no more soldiers to send
While all the saints and the dreamers
Are shackled by what they must do to survive
But in secret they sing to each other
And find their own voice is what keeps them alive
But in secret they sing to each other
And find their own voice is what keeps them alive
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3. |
Hungry Ghost
04:16
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Your ghost is a hungry memory
Haunts me wherever I go
I know him all too well
He’s been here all along
And now you’re gone
I see that I didn’t know what longing was
I didn’t know what it meant to miss someone
Didn’t know how the heart could ache
But I’ll keep trying to love this hungry ghost
You won’t look me in the eye
But I could watch you all year You’ll be looking far away
To some place I’ll never go
While your ghost haunts my vision
Just like a dream I can’t wake up from
Always somewhere at the edge of sight
Speaking loudest in the dead of night
Hungry
But I’ll keep fighting to love this hungry ghost
And somewhere I am told
You are alive and well
Not a ghost in sight
But how do you manage
To haunt my waking days
Haunt my bed at night
Your song
tears me down, moves me along
And I am left here on my own
Those devastation blues setting in
And I would love you if you’d let me
Yes I would sing you to sleep each night
I’d put only good things in your sight
Let you be and hold you tight
But I know I’m better off alone
Cause it’s no one can love a hungry ghost
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4. |
Hold On
05:51
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Wake up, look up
Things are not as they seem
All those men in big white houses
They are living a dying dream
And those who know that to love is not to own
Will never find themselves alone
I have known a love so great
it burns and aches and it takes
all you've got not to fall completely apart
when you watch it get torn away
I have seen a hurt go so deep
it learns to hide beneath your tissue,
between your bones
and one day you will find
you're bearing a heavy load
And I was raised to believe
that a war is over when there are still
bombs in the ground
and broken bodies to be found
And I was fooled into fighting
for myself and for nobody else, nobody else
cause they said no one was gonna fight for me
But I’m starting to look around
I see a weary sea of people
trying to pull each other up from these trenches
So hold on, hold on
things are not as they seem
and you are not on your own
cause nobody enters this world alone
We build high walls but someday they're bound to fall
or be broken down
and those who know that to love is not to own
will never find themselves alone
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5. |
I Knew How
05:14
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Light ran down my limbs, stars in the sea
You turned to walk away
and my heart was broken open for all to see
I’ve tried to find the words to speak this aching thing aloud
But it burns between us, longing to make a sound
I knew how to love before I knew how to hide
I knew how to love before I knew how to lie
How to lie
I knew how to laugh before I knew how to fear
I knew how to laugh before I knew how to disappear
Disappear
I tried to guard myself from all the pain I’d ever known
Beating heart, flesh and bone, flesh and bone
So I learned to hide away from everyone I’d ever loved
Beating heart, flesh and blood
I knew how to sing before I knew to how to speak with violence
I knew how to sing before I knew how to scream in silence
Scream in silence
I knew how to love before I feared it would break me open
But I found I can’t heal the wounds I’ve got if they go unspoken
So break it open
Now I’ve seen a broken trust in everyone I’ve ever loved
Beating heart, flesh and blood, flesh and blood
But I’ve found a burning hope in everyone I’ve ever known
Broken hearts, flesh and bone
Fighting for what we know
Never lost or alone
We came into this world knowing how to love
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6. |
Outro
01:04
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Never fear going in circles
the next time around you will see what you missed before
and you will be different
and it will be better
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