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Cosmic Wager
06:24
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What powers could divide
A love that has no pride?
What purity or vanity or worry of the mind?
No battle I could fight
No demons of the night
No ancient lore or holy war or Angels of the light
And I may not know the future but my love is alive
This cosmic wager has been lost in the fire
What would I say? (If I stood in the light of David)
What would I do? (When I feel we're separated)
When all I have is pledged to you
No earthly form or fair
No vision in the air
No predator or broken world or hell's imposing stare
And I may not know the future but my love is alive
This cosmic wager has been lost in the fire
What would I say? (If I stood in the light of David)
What would I do? (When I feel we're separated)
When all I have is pledged to you
What would I say? (With a word I've never spoken)
What would I do? (With the evil deeds I've chosen)
When all I have is pledged to you
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20,000 Ghosts
05:06
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It's too late they're already dead
And I was laughing as they bled
Now there 20,000 ghosts inside my head
They had no names, only sounds
Filthy curses from my mouth
We would beat them 'till they broke and it's the screaming that will choke out all my doubt
Raw flesh and bone
I sealed my fate in Sierra Leonne
The weak among them sank just a like stone
Now I'm Your son
Wash away the things I've done
I have offered up my wickedness the infidel and libertine are gone
I don't know what i want you to say
Sink the boats, put them all in the grave
I don't know what i want you to say
Sink the boats, lay their memory to waste
Now my memory's been misplaced
But there's 2 things I can't erase
That I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great saviour full of grace
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Mississippi
05:36
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Followed the waters to my hometown
Past the junkyard and the playground
The mobile home ain't where it used to be
Just a pile of dirt and memories
Daddy worked his fingers to the bone
80 hours then he'd come home
Momma's heart was strong, her body weak
Oh that damn highway so unforgiving
And he cried like the river
He cried when the midnight come
He cried for the things he'd done
Praying for the girl he loved
Back then that faith was all we had
And it's not over now
January 1986
We packed our bags for Minneapolis
The dusty basement of a brand new home
Better than anything we'd ever known
Little sister's getting older now
And baby brother's on the way out
Momma's pain is changing every day
But she just smiles right through the misery
And she cried like the river
She cried when the midnight come
She cried for the man she loved
Watch her now she's standing up
And daddy's loving her forever
And it's not over now
The Mississippi river's calling
The Mississippi river's always been a friend
Daddy says it runs down to the south
Daddy knows he's walked it more than any man
My big sister was my only friend
We'd ride our bikes down where the path would end
We never found what lied beyond the bend
But we had each other then
I never had a room to call my own
But I never had a need to be alone
And I was running from the outlaw "Red"
And he was gunning for my head
And I cried like the river
I cried when the midnight come
I cried for the things I'd done
Praying for the rain to come
And I was never much for crying
And it's not over now
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Lovely River
04:56
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Lovely River, take me under
Take me under like a son
Show me mercy, and compassion
Wash the poison from my tongue
Chorus:
We are slaves to nonsense
Haunted by our conscience
Violent and godless
Lovely River, overhwelm me
Overwhelm me like a gun
Give me visions, revelations
I won't stop until it's done
Chorus
Lovely river, quench my longing
Quench my longing, be my sight
Teach me patience grace and temperance
Wholly gifted, You were right
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Jeromy Darling Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jeromy is an actor, songwriter, speaker and advocate, plying his wares in Minnesota with his wife (married '02) and 4 children.
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