Noise Epic

Album: Forth (2008)
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  • Pleading with Athos of the Rock
    In the ancient language which he spoke
    But I didn't even give a damn
    Cause all I wanted to do was just sit back and talk
    Talk about the restless winds that were blowing in my mind
    That twisted all we grow as too thin
    And feelings I had which I couldn't describe
    And the places I'd come within
    And in the chrome light I stood up and I just began
    I'd sell my pride on a whim, let it blow
    The righteous light that was guiding me still
    And the man with the holy soul
    Impatience took a dim view of my words
    And let me down again
    I'm so dusty, laden with all that world-weary stars and reverends

    I've got your Mother Mary, God
    Life is empty
    I wanna find some peace today
    I said, Mother Mary, oh
    Life's so empty
    I need some peace today, oh oh today

    Oh those twisted corridors of power
    In the ivory walls of hate
    Where the eagle flies so proudly
    And I just can't, just can't wait
    In the victim's mind, he's ready
    He is ready to exploit the weakness
    Of the century's greed and feebleness
    And the lies they whisper
    To his brothers and sisters

    Please Jesus, oh I love you
    Won't you come and stay
    Mother Mary, I know life is empty
    I wanna find some peace today

    Hannah hung around for the the rapture
    On the roam for forty years
    Of course no-one came, and you know I still live in fear
    Always waiting for the prince of seventy-two
    I was waiting for the world to fall apart, how about you?

    If Husain could have waited
    Nava'I could have seen the stars in the sky
    Cause I've been waiting for you for fifty odd years
    I've been waiting for you through these hopes and these tears
    I was waiting for you, I'm a-waiting for you
    There's thunder, in the sky

    Why why why, did I let you down?
    Can I carry that cross for you?
    Can I carry that cross for you?
    Is there anything that I need to know?
    Did you let me down?
    Did you let me down?
    Why why why, did you let me down?

    Did you think I wouldn't know
    Why why why, did you let me down?

    I wanna sit right here, I'm gonna write you a letter
    I wanna sail, I wanna sail over the ocean
    I wanna talk to Best and Muhammad Ali
    I don't just use my fists, yeah I use my feet
    They got spirit, I got spirit
    Oh mama mama mama it's like yellow earth
    What was it like for you when you was giving birth
    You got it in for you, I got it in for me
    I said, why you always jump in places like Stevie McQueen?
    I got spirit, come feel it
    I got spirit, you can feel it
    He got spirit, we gotta feel it
    You got spirit, scream if you feel it

    Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
    Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up Writer/s: Nick McCabe, Peter Anthony Salisbury, Richard Paul Ashcroft, Simon Robin David Jones
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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