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1.
Ana Chomai 05:38
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ANA CHOMAI i’m so tired of just getting by
 Jesus, please just let me die 
because dying is no way to live i feel a sea of thorns 
wrap around my body to 
 spiral up into my mouth 
for me to curse my only love is mine such a weak pursuit,
 is mine such a weak pursuit
 that I suffer like I do?
 is it such a weak pursuit to You? what good am I to you now, 
weary from all my pain? 
is it something that I’ve done 
for this rust inside my veins? is mine such a weak pursuit,
 is mine such a weak pursuit
 that I suffer like I do?
 is it such a weak pursuit to You? i’m so tired of just getting by. 
 Jesus, please just let me die.

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A Night With The Sun 05:41
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A NIGHT WITH THE SUN there are things that you do not know 
in the chasm that divides our minds 
a tented sky drawn across the sea
 holding tight its mysteries what you have is what you’ve been given 
is more than you could hold 
you are in this night 
in this place of partial sight it’d burn you like a night with the sun
 it’d burn you like a night with the sun 
like a night with the sun it would surely burn your eyes
 this Face where every sun collides 
is on the other side 
you won’t see until you die love, my love
 for that which you know 
test yourself to see 
If your heart is true to me heavy thing come the sun at night 
it would surely burn your eyes it’d burn you like a night with the sun 
it’d burn you like a night with the sun
 like a night with the sun
3.
Aether 04:48
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AETHER everything together 
seamonsters and mountains groan
 the secret lines of space
 and stars that swim the aether sea
 for the dawn’s arising. everything together in a day of chaos, 
the heavens crash into the earth
 and You will close the womb 
to all the thoughts that man gave birth such as these, I cannot see 
 beautiful and terrible
 like a rose through the thorns 
 though the bud was ripped and torn when the cord is loosened 
everything will fly apart 
the red will turn to white
 the Light will burn away the white though my weary feet shuffle 
in a line of sidewalk sighs 
I know the moon is out, 
and i know the sun is alive my Sunrise from on high 
i can’t see but just a part
 of this beautiful sight
 and in it all, you have my heart
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Like You're Nothing 05:08
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LIKE YOU'RE NOTHING piety has the sweetest smell lowest lows on my highest hill
 offering an illegitimate son
 but what you want is not what I give to you 
 ignoble wears a crown, bites the gold, and throws it down
 i’m living like you’re nothing 
living like you’re nothing like you’re nothing good to be king - to write the law for my own whims 
bending for my own breaks burning at my own stakes spoiled sons with the spoils of war
 savoring every change of course
 lauding all the loudest dirges writing off the vital verses
 i’m living like you’re nothing 
 living like you’re nothing like you’re nothing all the things that you despise – 
 an empty heart, a mouth of lies 
animals and sweet perfume
 but I could never give like you (with a) swagger and a grin, i will let myself on in
goodbye farewell. what you call heaven looks like hell.
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Retour 05:38
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RETOUR morning rises to a prodigal son
 shepherd loves the whole, and He loves the one
 sheep is kicking hard against the goads 
she cannot undo what I have done before syndicator sheep talk with the cruelest eyes
 “we don’t want her here. Leave her where she lies 
we will get our knives if you bring her back 
oust her blemished heart to keep us from turning black” “never you mind. I will do as I please 
I was just as kind to you wicked sheep
 breaking vagrant legs to heal a heart inside 
 every time I did, I killed the fattened calf” “doesn’t hurt right now but you know it will
 on my shoulders till you know my smell
 i will come in if you open the door
 you could love so much when you’ve been so far “time doesn’t bring you back like I do”
6.
Crank The Cash 04:37
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Gold Is Told 04:44
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GOLD IS TOLD armed to the teeth with a tongue like a trap
 pruning the growth, you severed all the limbs inhaling philosophies that God had never breathed 
 casting cultured pearls for the swine in your ears scratching at the face of your mind, dazzled by its glow 
speaking without ever waiting to a pyrite show you know gold is told you know light by sight it does not need your glow it does not need your bite weighing people down with things that have no weight 
throw your weight around. you’re tossed by the waves pulling all the strings for God in a box 
you entered the ring and spurned all the knocks you know gold is told you know light by sight it does not need your glow it does not need your bite i’m hoping it is not a pedestal you seek 
 like a bulge in a wall, great is its fall muzzle-mouth me, hot-coal-kiss me till I know the truth muzzle-mouth me, hot-coal-kiss me till I know who you are
 you know gold is told you know light by sight it does not need your glow it does not need your bite
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To The Church 04:54
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TO THE CHURCH wanted gold but hate the cost 
 want a Savior but not the cross you set a fire to sate the sadness
 a hopeless fire leaves hollow ashes in your alchemy, all you made were chains in your alchemy, all you made to be so lost when you’ve been so free 
 to be so blind when you once could see rejection clothed in inquiry empty fruits on empty trees we can know truth, but can’t create 
liberation is not not innate trading truth for self-made laws 
 your solutions are your cause in your alchemy, all you made were chains in your alchemy, all you made to be so lost when you’ve been so free
 to be so blind when you once could see rejection clothed in inquiry
 empty fruits on empty trees don’t you choke, don’t you choke 
 on the rotten fruits of your philosophies
9.
The Ascension 05:53
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THE ASCENSION I’m leaving but I won’t leave you alone
 I’m leaving but I won’t leave you alone 
I love you but I cannot stay with you
 I’m leaving but I won’t leave you alone you’ll suffer but I will take care of you
 Keep running and you will see me at the end I’m leaving but I will return someday 
I’m leaving but I won’t leave you alone
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Morningstar Speaks 05:59
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MORNINGSTAR SPEAKS Morning Star speaks 
until the Morning Star arises Morning Star, Light, 
 how many dawns will break until we see? i am waiting for You
. what is living without You?
 what is living without You? Morning star speaks, 
 “Light I give to be unswerving. 
In a moment you will see Me.” i am waiting for You
i am waiting for You
 what is living without You?
 what is living without You?

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released August 17, 2010

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