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Finger in the Wind
02:34
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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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Kindness is Solid Stone
05:10
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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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The Rain Not the Thunder
02:08
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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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Empty Thyselves
04:35
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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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David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK
David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.
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