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The End Times
03:27
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I thought the end times
Would be more crowded
Lions laying down alongside lambs
Dolphins swimming in Venetian canals
The skies in China, blue
It's someone's dream come true
The cancellation of what
Used to be important
The separation of me & you
The emptiness of promises
I never thought I'd live to
See the clearing away
Of what we thought we knew
It's like we cast a spell
On ourselves
In invisible ink
And now it's turning blue
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2. |
Time Moves
03:39
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Some genie out of
some bottle somewhere is saying
"This is what I thought you asked for"
And some genie somewhere else
is saying
"It doesn't work like that.
It's not commensurate with
anything you've ever said or done
Anyone says it is, you tell 'em
I said that they're in a fairy tale.
You may as well say that somebody made
beautiful
picturesque
glorious
full moon
just to make you break down crying
And when you look up at the sky
you see constellations..."
And somebody's tearing out her hair,
saying
"Why
is it (the one I cannot name)
why is it always your way
to show me
what I used to have
by taking it away?"
Maybe it doesn't mean anything
maybe it's empty of meaning and
meaningless
Empty of quality, empty of good or bad
empty of anything meaningful, it's not an
allegory
Time moves in
one direction
for one reason
just to keep us guessing
so we won't get bored
So we'll keep on wondering why
for as long as we're alive
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3. |
By the Ocean
04:05
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Do you remember when
We used to live in Philadelphia
And we went walking one evening
Through the Italian Market
To find a cup of coffee
And all the cafés were already shut
But we saw a cat in a window
Sitting on a pedestal draped in velveteen
As if he were on display in a museum
And I said
When I get older
If I get older
I want to live by the ocean
Will you come visit me there?
We’ll have a cup of tea
In the open air
And we’ll remember when
We used to live in Philadelphia
Back when we were still in school
But older than all the other kids
The evening was divine
So we kept on walking
South to the Mexican cafés
That were still open
And I got a cup of coffee
And we kept on walking
And I said
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Drive, drive your car over the bones of the dead
You’re only doing what they did
You’re just the same as them
Taking up space like them, staying safe like them
But you’re above ground instead
You’re a busy bee, you have no time for sorrow
You’re busy watching the unraveling of everything
The roaring of lions
The howling of wolves
The raging of the stormy seas
I hear the heavens opening
But it feels like hell to me
Oh I hear the markets opening
But there’s nothing left to fight for
to fight for
to fight for
So don’t you cry, hush-a-bye
You’ll move through these quality times
Without ever knowing why
And you’ll never ever get out of this world alive
I hear there’s a war on
But there’s no enemy
Oh they say somebody’s winning
But there’s no victory
Oh there never was anything to live for
to live for
to live for
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5. |
Here & Now
03:10
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The past is always imperfect
The future is always conditional
The manifest destiny of emptiness,
Nothingness, lovely in its quietness
lonely in its silence
The end of the world as we know it
And I could spend some
Time alone
Everything running out
Until we find
Until we find
The present is always
Here and now
It’s always
Inevitably
Here and now
It never was
Anything but
Here and now
It’s a fallacy
Of permanence
Made manifest
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Fellwalker Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cynthia Hopkins & James Lavino bring you music from above the tree line.
Find us at fellwalkermusic.com
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