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Five, Part V: Cyclic Ultimatum & Grand Finale, Part II

by Dan Whitley & The Passerines

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Beginning of the end They'll never let us go We'll never leave this place Five came to take us for the sacrifice
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[Joeseph Starling:] Propagandist It's always so easy for you You'll always control all you see Everything you do is good enough You can always just scrape on through Hypocrite You'll never accept who they are Never believe in their rights Yet you'd fight for them half to the death If it helped your desires Mastermind You want us to scream out your name You want us to fear you Well not this time We'll never respect you They'll try to forget you But not this time There's far too much fun to be had In watching you struggle As you watched us [I Wish I Was (S.C.):] I wish I was you You've got all the power Controlling the controller Like a puppet on a string I want to be free But it's hard to imagine What you'd say if you heard it From his own mouth I'd like to escape Say the people in my country In my land and his They want to be rid of your tyranny once and for all I wish I was you You know that you're safe there And even if he tries To come up here You know we'll never let him in
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Never writing out of the boxes they give you the Flick-knives with the battles and the killers of ease Run into the stables and you're down on your knees Hiding from the chasers oh yeah you're begging please Come on let me out of here won't you give me the trees Never writing out of the boxes they give you the World-wise expeditions grating all up a hill Sneaking through the turnpike they will find out your will Laying there in bed alone just waiting to feel Come on back into the room now give me the bill Never writing out of the boxes they give you the Overhead the mongoose flies and lays out its wings Hiding from the jackals who would take all your rings Far behind the iron wall a thin young girl sings Praying for the saviour coming giving her wings
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A busy day You gave us a place to go A place to go At the end of a busy day The end of the day You gave us the end of the day The darkness [chorus:] As night draws in The evening fades far behind You left us behind And headed into the night and the mist Sunrise Mist rolling in from the sea I see you Coming to take me back I see you Coming to take me away Take me away From this place you must take me away Home town Lead me to where I grew up I'll see you Stood in the streets we knew So softly Just longing for us to come in And be there [chorus] You bought us Bought all our loves with a song And sold us To any who'd walk in that door They'll walk in that door For ever and ever each night In darkness [chorus] Come back now We need all your space one more time Let us in We need you to furnish our lives No closing down Nor leaving the town far behind Don't take them away All the men they will take you away Take us away When you go will you take us away At the end of the day You gave us the end of the day Happiness [chorus]
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Quietness lies surrounding me Myriad phrases drift as burning icebergs A book to the face A knife in the back The noise from the north The stench from the south That's just how it goes When you're cleaning open wounds with an acid brush When murder is cried and all hell breaks loose Quietness, lay Surround me
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Quietness 11:06
Music is the food of love But quietness soothes the indigestion of the soul Happy endings may abound, if you search All I can see is an old ruined church Stately, with feeling For many are the long nights And dark is the bedroom floor As I wish for you to come back down and build my home For war is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength Helicopters watch us from the murky sky Seeing all the time One big dark eye Lying on the arsenic-scented paving of good intentions Many times more we shall seek for the end Moving all the time as we fight to repent As I lay in this house and nobody speaks For the right to bear arms Controlling all he sees before him We watch the huge hilarious concrete flyover, spoiling lazily to escape the mastery of the savage engines They say it’s a modern take on a classic Well that’s kind of meaningless without any class Expressly different from that which went before Our brothers and sisters lie fallen in a distant hole The empire of darkness is spreading through my necropolis Bringing with it fear The miserable merchants weave nets of despite Meaningless phrases drift like burning icecubes Miserable The miserable merchants weave nets of despite Meaningless phrases drift like burning icecubes That’s just the way it happens sometimes Quietness surrounds any who do not try to escape its grasp God bless the Duke of Argyll His rivers of pain smelting tentacle tubes Never writing out of the boxes he gives you the We sing along to the opera each night Help me. Let me breathe. I never once said them. The things I wanted to say to you. For we all may be equal, but they’re far more equal than me God bless you, everyone Mothers watching children watching other children dance Heavenly voices sing beautiful song You’re just a little boy, and you’ll disappear Dropping icecubes into burning tea Dripping water hollows a stone As a ring is worn down by constant use So many tried, so many try So many failed, so many fell Hand built, tested, tuned Gently away, through night’s long dark The only good man is a dead man Perhaps one tongue is enough Perhaps one tongue deserves another Like a dead man out of mind I lay alone and wanting What fools the mortals are Singing “come out and play We wont hurt you Come out and play” It’s the beginning of the end It’s much too quiet ‘round here It was made in Cornwall with blood and sweat Softly, slowly, with tears on your breast It’s something to believe in Your whole life is nothing but a smear It’s always much too late Hollow, empty, dead Nurse unupblown Cowards may die many times Well then, how many are you, for we are many Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori Let slip the dogs of war For I have supped full with horrors Now as I walk out I scream a strange dark interlude Memento mori Every good boy deserves favour Every good boy deserves a face Not going home three halves empty Babies ripped untimely from the womb Flung into an ungrateful tomb Chairs explode with burning grief Nothing will come of nothing Nothing all the way down Nothing will come of nothing Nothing for ever and ever Nothing all the way down is nothing All the way down is nothing Music is your own experience For all things can corrupt perverted minds Music is the food of love But quietness soothes the indigestion of the soul
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Awakening? 17:28
[Movement I: Starting, climbing] [Movement II: Softly, slowly] Is now the time for us to rise Bleeding from an empty grave? (We were held in here) The sun shines dark upon my home (For far too long) Laying out it's broken wings (Our wings, not spread, not free) [Movement III: Stealthy, forward] [Movement IV: Onwards, quickly] We're broken in the bottom Of a fast revolving ditch It's hard to climb back out of here Of here Of here It's getting hard to see you There's no way to get away We're just holding onto life around here Around here Around here I want to leave this place now Where it's getting hard to breathe I don't know why I'd ever want to live here To live here To live here [Movement V: Halting, hiding] [Movement VI: Further, faster] We are the nameless And the hollow And the empty And the dead Release us Set us free Imprison us at your peril For when we awaken We will fly like merciless storm Over your burning southern cities We are the nameless And the hollow And the empty And the dead [Movement VII: Over, out]
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Awakening! 04:01
Now we awaken We arise from the empty night Shadows fly across our path The time draws near for light Light which heals and cleanses Light which keeps our breath We rush to save the tree of life Quickly now, before the night
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I'm coming back Returning to the place of my birth I'm coming home Ride with me I'll take you on a journey Through the empty night Come on and hold me up Against the tyranny of oppression We'll never be suppressed I'm coming back Returning to the place of my birth I'm coming home
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Why did no one tell you? It was all so wrong You grew up thinking you were fine Never a problem, not one time Then perhaps you had a shock, you went to school they hurt you But everyone who called you names was called them by the dozen too [chorus:] Bully. Monster. Scoundrel. Gangster. We're all just trying to fit in You wanted to, you never needed rules Just hold on tight, and don't let go So even when they told you You were still so wrong To be honest I'm on their side They perhaps were cruel but they never lied If all you've got is seizing up, when it threatens, or it startles The how do you expect to get along with all the members' modern parties [chorus] You'll always aim for losing All you are is wrong You'll never live a better life Never lose your senseless mind Until you have become a puppet, keeping rules, obeying Holding all the strings now as the final pieces fall in You're just a bully, a monster, a scoundrel, a gangster Always just trying to fit back in You're just a big list of rules Just hold on tight Just don't let go No don't let go You're just a member of stuff Starting and stopping Forever moving on in ignorance Member of stuff Joining and leaving Hoping they won't find you again Member of stuff Starting and stopping Running on half blind through the herd Member of stuff Joining and leaving Trying to escape what you were A member of stuff
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This has been a long journey We've travelled all this way just to see you To hold you with our fingers How dare you block us out This will not stand You should have opened your arms When you had the chance You'll feel it Our revenge will come swift to your door We're standing up We'll never hold fast to your laws We're breaking free And leaving your prisons behind Softly, and gently We waited out the night Watching, and longing For a weakness in you steel And now we've found it We were too much for you We'll hold on here forever We can never lose this now What's this? No challenge coming from you No strength to overrule What's this? What's this? You're surely beaten now They never knew they wanted it I had to show them all their needs To give them all the yearning That would tear my soul apart They're happy now Now they know their lives are empty Just full of holes and hanging on Now they can be happy In peace eternal They'll all rot down The machines will come and dig you up Dig you up yeah they'll dig you up The people won't take it anymore That's what we said They won't take it But that's what they're for Always just taking and never giving back You people have failed me, yet here I stand All alone I'll stand up to them How dare you Our people need to breathe You opened your arms You let them fall In this ditch it ends I wish I'd been you I'd have given them the power Taken once we'd earned it Not fallen out for years
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Death comes to us all And even if you try to leave it They will come to take you down Death comes to us all No matter if you've earned it Five demons in your eyes Death comes to us all Pouring from the showers We rose to take you down Death comes to us all Bleeding at the roadside We will never hope again

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released August 9, 2015

All music written by Dan Whitley except where otherwise specified
All lyrics by Dan Whitley
Programmed, performed, recorded, produced by Dan Whitley
Cover art:
photograph by Jon Wright - www.facebook.com/WrightTurnWoodturning/
manipulated by Dan Whitley

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