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The Life of the World to Come
Artist: The Mountain Goats
Release: 2009-10-06
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1 Samuel 15:23
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Psalms 40:2
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Genesis 3:23
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Philippians 3:20-21
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Hebrews 11:40
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Genesis 30:3
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Romans 10:9
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1 John 4:16
In the holding tank I built for myself, it's feeding time And I start to feel afraid 'cause I'm the last one left in line The endless string of summer storms that led me to today Began one afternoon with you, long ago and far away And someone leads the beast in on its chain But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain So I won't be afraid of anything ever again In the cell that holds my body back, the door swings wide And I feel like someone's lost child as the guards lead me outside And if the clouds are gathering, it's just to point the way To an afternoon I spent with you when it rained all day And someone leads the beast in on its chain But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain So I won't be afraid of anything ever again
Matthew 25:21
They hook you up To a fentanyl drip To mitigate the pain a little bit I flew in From Pennsylvania When I heard the hour was coming fast And I docked in San Barbara Tried to brace myself You can't brace yourself When the time comes You just have to roll with the blast And I'm an eighteen-wheeler headed down the interstate And my breaks are going to give And I won't know till it's too late Tires screaming when I lose control Try not to hurt too many people when I roll Find the harbor freeway And head south Real tired Head kind of light I found Telegraph Road I'd only seen the name on envelopes Found the parking lot And turned right I felt all the details Carving out space in my head Tropicanas on the walk way Neon red Between the pain And the pills trying to hold at bay Stand as a traveler going far away And I am airplane tumbling wing over wing Tried to listen to my instruments They don't say anything People screaming when the engines quit I hope we're all in crash position when we hit And then came to your bedside And as it turns out I'm not ready And as though You were speaking through a thick haze You said hello to me We all stood there around you Happy to hear you speak The last of something bright burning Still burning Beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy And you were a presence full of light upon this earth And I am a witness to your life and to it's worth It's three days later when I get the call And there's nobody around to break my fall
Deuteronomy 2:10
The sun above me and a concrete floor below Scratch at the chain links maybe bare my teeth for show Fed twice a day I don't go hungry anymore Feel in my bones just what the future has in store I pace in circles so the camera will see Look hard at my stripes, there'll be no more after me Laze by the shoreline while the sailors disembark Scratch out a place to sit and rest down in the dark Smell something burning downwind just a little ways They set up camp and sing and sweat and work for days I have no fear of anyone I'm dumb and wild and free I am a flightless bird and there'll be no more after me In Costa Rica in a burrow underground Climb to the surface, blink my eyes and look around I'm all alone here as I try my tiny song Claim my place beneath the sky but i won't be here for long I sang all night the moon shone on me through the trees No brothers left and there'll be no more after me
Isaiah 45:23
If my prayer be not humble, make it so In these last hours, if the Spirit waits in check, help me let it go And should my suffering double, let me never love You less Let every knee be bent, and every tongue confess And I won't get better but someday I'll be free 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me I read the magazines somebody brought Hold them to my failing eyes until my hands get hot And when the nurse comes in to change my sheets and clothes The pain begins to travel, dancing as it goes And I won't get better but someday I'll be free 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me If my prayer goes unanswered that's alright If my path fills with darkness and there is no sign of light Let me praise You for the good times, let me hold Your banner high Until the hills are flattened and the rivers all run dry And I won't get better but someday I'll be free 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
The clouds explode and then the desert blooms Someone will need to mop this floor for me When I emerge I find my car Like a cathedral in a dream of the future Drive 'til the rain stops Keep driving Pull over and blast off when I get the chance Clear as an insect's wings in sunlight Flip on the high stakes radio Try to sing the words right Drive 'til the rain stops Keep driving I had his arms tied up behind him We were together all day Maybe make Culiacán by sunset Try to anyway High as the clouds now Flying Drive 'til the rain stops Keep driving