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Locks and Barriers
06:15
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The wind will scatter me
though I am not yet ash.
None of us impervious
to fire steel or glass.
Built to make us feel small
and succeeding in its grandeur,
But everything that stands must fall,
Gravity is the only winner.
A privilege to be speechless,
Trees ripped from their roots.
Unspeakable in its progress,
the shelter that we choose.
Locks and barriers,
Hawks and hunted traitors,
The center slowly sinks under a sun
that never blinks,
I'll find you on a fence,
Or frozen in a lens.
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2. |
Your Reasons Why
04:46
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On this tired rock
The trouble that we've made
Only disappears
To return another day
And so we each day must start
With willing hands or heavy heart
Don’t talk to me about your alibi
Or things you feel the need to justify
I know you have reasons why
With so many choices
Want you want is hard to say
You can’t see black or white
When there’s so many shades of grey
And so we linger and can’t decide
Until another finger points us to a side
Don’t talk to me about your alibi
Or things you feel the need to justify
I know you have reasons why
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3. |
Turning to the Light
04:56
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Trade the new in for the old,
Leave the warmth and seek the cold,
Reject the pleasures and the vice,
Now we're turning to the light.
Are you waiting to be called
All your riddles some day solved
Arm in arm we'll make wrong right
Now we're turning to the light
I know that many do exist
Walking everyday in our midst
I wonder how high is the price
For turning to the light
We are blind
Its hard to see
When will love
Come for me
I wonder how high is the price
What must we pay
For turning to the light
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4. |
Blood in Water Blooms
05:00
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Its come to this
Can't change the course unless
We're willing to accept
Seeming weaker than the rest
And so it goes
The bitterness it shows
They'll wrap themselves in flags
As the excuses grow
Don't concern me with your plans
Or lines drawn in the sand
Blood in water blooms, we wash our wounds
Nothings ever free
Tie a ribbon to a tree
Perhaps the only thing
On which we all agree
Silently we curse
Jesus for his words
Remember that he taught us
The last shall be the first
Tell me which way will you run
The streets are choked, the voices one
Blood in water blooms, we wash our wounds
Torn open like sunset
Red fades into violet
Blood in water blooms, we wash our wounds
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5. |
All That They Know
05:58
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You think you’ll go alone
On the other side you’ll find no home
No answers you have known
So don’t ask those questions anymore
You stagger through the streets
No map, you wander aimlessly
And the eyes of those you meet
See something that you cannot see
And if what they say is true
Then we’ll be there together
And their words had been of use
Your clothes, your shoes, your hat
You borrowed from a stranger that
Told you he’d be back
To reposses the things you have
Now that you are warm
You forgot the burden that you bore
And look upon with scorn
The others who have gone before
And if what they say is true
Then we’ll be there together
And their words had been of use
All that they know, they no longer believe
Nothing they’ve felt, nothing they’ve seen
No reason to believe
There’d be something else
Heaven is here, come help yourself
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6. |
We Never Dreamed
02:46
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We were laughing
As if the first and only
Born with privilege
All we blessed was holy
When we shared
As if so generous
We glowed with pride
At our selflessness.
We were so mistaken.
When we spoke
As if so bold and worldly
Concerned and humble
Best intentions, surely.
If we seemed
Arrogant and naive
We never dreamed
We could be so shaken.
Well
We were so mistaken.
This much is plain
So many things have changed
Gone are the days
Everything seemed OK
We never dreamed
We could be so shaken
How can it be
We were so mistaken?
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NadNavillus Chicago, Illinois
Equal parts guitar and vocal driven, sonically and structurally diverse, Nad Navillus is the music of Dan
Sullivan.
Two releases on Jagjaguwar "Show Your Face" (JAG037) and "Iron Night" (051) proceed the latest album "Forgotten Portraits".
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