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Mythmaker
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MYTHMAKER
We’ve got our darkened glasses, cheap and plastic
For to stare straight at the sun
Icarus has us convinced
That he might be the chosen one
Taste for danger, fear of failure
Yeah, we dull our knives on this
Rolling rocks and talking talk
About a smiling Sisyphus
Wrap your wings around me
Pull me down against your kiss
Hear the poets cry out:
“It wasn’t supposed to end like this”
Weights and measures, wax and feathers
Yeah, it all comes down to this
Toeing edges, wondering whether
We have got ourselves convinced
Though the poets insist on making myth
Of those that dare to take a stand
Fortune favours the bold and brazen
Those that reach out for her hand
Wrap your wings around me
Pull me down against your kiss
Hear the poets cry out:
“It wasn’t supposed to end like this”
A love unanointed
A love sharp and swift
A love unbeholden to the makers of myth
A love deep and dangerous we cannot resist
No fear that our hearts will be punished for this
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Parched and Broken
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PARCHED AND BROKEN
We are children
Children walking
Arm in arm
Towards the shore
Down the valley
They called a cradle
When rivers ran here
In days of yore
And our mothers
Walk beside us
In robes of yellow
Green and gold
They speak of shadows
Underwater
That will soothe our
Weary souls
Blessed corners
Of the empire
That are still lapped
By the tide
Dessert blooms
And soil weakens
As water’s lifted
To the skies
Once the skies have
Drawn up the water
All of the water
In the world
So our bodies
Parched and broken
Will be lifted
Heavenward
We are children
Children walking
Arm in arm
Towards the shore
Down the valley
They called a cradle
When rivers ran here
In days of yore
And when we’re pulled down
Beneath the water
And are cooled right
To our core
We’ll watch our mothers
Swim beneath us
In robes of yellow
Green and gold
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The Nautical Miles Vancouver
The Nautical Miles are an adventurous roots music band from Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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