Tao of the Dead Part II: Strange News From Another Planet

Album: Tao Of The Dead (2011)
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  • To know your honor and keep to the right
    Ever unswerving towards infinite
    To care as a woman and be like a child
    True and unwavering
    To be of the valley stream when calm
    Become a ruler and sage to the stars
    Return to the state of the block uncarved
    Like the great tailor

    To yield and overcome, to bend and be straight
    Empty and be full, and have little and gain
    They never falter, never put on display
    Therefore they shine forth, is that empty to say?

    You rule by being just and wage ware with surprise
    Master all without strife, and the world will comply
    Says the sage the more rules that you write
    The more thieves in the night
    And if we take no action, entertain no desire
    All the people return to a good simple life
    Give the world what belongs to the world
    Unto me what is mine

    I just had my perfect day
    And watched my past lives melt away
    I looked at all my suffering
    And realized it wasn't me
    I had a strange epiphany
    As I awoke out of a dream
    I saw the storm ahead of me
    And knew it was our destiny

    Sun dissolves the fogs of grey
    And rises on a perfect day

    Five are the colors that will blind the eye
    Five are the tastes and the tones that will lie
    The racing and hunting that madden the mind
    And lead us all astray

    To yield and overcome, to bend and be straight
    Empty and be full, and have little and gain Writer/s: Aaron Ford, Autry Fulbright, Conrad Keely, Jason Reece
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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