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Kindness is Solid Stone Violence is a Heavy Loan to Pay

by David Benjamin Blower

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See the valleys lifted up Rise, scum of the earth See the mountains crashing down Finger in the wind Hear the sound Haven't you heard and don't you know? Has it never been told to you? Put your ear to the mountain roots Finger in the wind Hear the sound All y'are as flowers and grass Nations as handfuls of dust All your princes brought to nought Finger in the wind Hear the sound
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The Way is like a little bird There perched without worry The way is like a lily Clothed beautiful by nobody The way is like the rain that falls And waters all regardless The way is like the sun that rises Upon enemies and others O kindness is solid stone O violence is a heavy loan to pay And I'll pay for everything I take And I'll destroy everything I make When I use the measures and weights of stolen days The sand's shifting The way is like a little seed Lost in the dirt of becoming The way is like the tree that homes Roosting birds amidst leaves, singing The way is like a woman who forms bread with her two hands The way is like the child who is Unseen amidst adults’ plans O kindness is solid stone O violence is a heavy loan to pay And someone pays for everything I break And the Roman peace blows up in Rome's face And now another round of futile waste While mercy waits Dear ones, there may come a day And may the day be real When the gentle shall raise their hands And the proud will kneel Dear ones, may there come a day And may the day be real When the gentle shall wipe the tears Of the proud on even soil O kindness is solid stone O violence is a heavy loan to pay And mercy breathes like wild horses Upon a thousand hills with no fences And law is a thief who takes no chances Locks himself in a room with his treasures Sits watching his cctv cameras And this here is hell as we built it And this here is a shell of the real thing And this is a young ruin
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Knowledge all will come to an end And all the clanging loudest voices No we gaze into a mirror dimly Toward the unknown lands of knowing No we gaze into a mirror dimly Toward the unknown lands face to face
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No Debts No Masters No Law No Caesars Love fulfils it all Love will be all in all
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Stay your blaring voices And quiet down your tunes For its the rain, not the thunder That makes the flowers bloom Hold your many words For all you think you know For its the rain, not the thunder That makes the flowers grow Edge from the centre And join hands in the ring For its the rain, not the thunder That welcomes in the spring Silence is a power That holds a space therein Where the voice of another Shall speak forgotten things
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Gather round the table All my enemies Gather round the table with me Let us drink and know Why we did what we did Let the wine overflow onto our feet Let us drink and know Why we said what we said In the valley of the shadow of death Gather round the table All my enemies Gather round the table with me I’ll pray for you all As my cheeks run with oil And make offerings by fire for your souls I’ll pray that we all May rest by quiet waters In the goodness and the mercy of the age Gather round the table All my enemies Gather round the table with me Care for our life O god of our gladness O god of our madness and our grief Care for our bodies O god of our enemies O god of our wandering feet Gather round the table All my enemies Gather round the table with me
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Think not thyself to be more than thou art And judge thyself with courageous heart Greet ye everyone with honour And love ye, always, love one another Be not conformed to the law of this age But in God’s love may your minds be remade And empty thyself as an offering And empty thyself as an offering Rejoice with those who now rejoice And weep with those who speak with broken voice So far as you may be at peace with all Stand alongside those of no report Bless those who press ye into the ground Let e’er your blessing hereto resound Never avenge offence for offence Pay back your enemies with love, my friends May your prayers resound in all that you do Welcome saint and welcome strangers too May your prayers be wound of many a threat And evil overcome with good
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Meet me in the temple of my heart Meet me in the temple of my heart Walk with me through the deepest valleys of my soul Meet me in the temple of my heart Meet me in the sorrows of the night Meet me in the troubles of my days Walk with me through the times of wilderness and pain Meet me where my prayers arise again See me in the tavern of my soul Meet me where I sing and stamp my feet Let us be in love and cry and sing and laugh until the dawn Meet me in the tavern of my dreams
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Covers All Things Believes in All Things Holds All Things Stays with All Things

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released November 3, 2023

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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