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Invocation
04:15
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Exegesis
13:45
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Roar at Dawn
10:25
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Fate
13:42
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I am yours to do your bidding
It’s been this way since the beginning
Now my hair is grey and thinning
Do you need me anymore?
I have watched the burning skies
Through a coward’s eyes
Ignored the battle cries
That are right outside my door.
Stumbled drunk through love and joy
Far too long the mannish boy
But I’m ready to deploy
Make me useful in a war.
Make me useful, useful,
You don't have to tell me what side I'm fighting for.
Purify my ambition
Sanctify my secret mission
Make me Black Ops, cut the cord
Deny that I was even in the war.
Take my head out of the heavens
Take my hands and make them weapons
Hold me to the oath I swore
Make me useful in a war.
Make me deaf to my own voice
I wont question any choice
Coming down from the Commodore
Make me useful in a war.
Throw me in the line of fire
Make me climb the razor wire
Until my flesh is torn
Make me useful in a war.
Take my fear and give it edges
Make me dance out on the ledges
Make me hungry (humble), make me poor
Make me useful in a war.
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Tears In Things
09:17
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Bittersweet
03:10
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Beneath the truth lies the bones
Of a truth more complete
And I’ll bet everything I own
It’s a truth that’s bittersweet.
Beneath the waves of pleasure
And the tangled sheets
It all comes together
Still it’s all bittersweet.
Here’s to the highs
And here’s to the lows
The human heart endures
And so it goes.
The thorny crown.
The Judas kiss.
The final prayer on the martyr’s lips.
Here’s to the highs
And here’s to the lows
The human heart endures
And so it goes.
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Harvard Square
04:05
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