Echo8
05-04-2006, 03:46 PM
10,000 days (wings pt. 2):
Listen to the tales [that] romanticize,
How we follow[ed] the path of the hero.
Boast about the day [oh] when the river's overrun.
How we rise to the height of our halo.
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior.
Fading all the trials and the tribulations,
None of us have actually been there,
Not like you.
Ignorant fibbers in the congregation,
Gather 'round spewing sympathy,
Spare me.
None of them [can / could] even hold a candle up to you.
Blinded by choices, hypocrites won't see.
But enough about the collective Judas.
Who could deny you were the one
Who will [even] [need / lead] it,
[Your little] piece of the divine.
This little light of [mine'll get] you passed on to me;
[I'm gonna] let it shine to guide you safely on your way,
Your way home ...
Oh, what are they [gonna] do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they going to do when the [river's] overrun
Other than tremble [incessantly / and say slightly]?
[High is / Eyes] away
but [our lives] [are] up [on] the ground.
You [were] the light and the way, they only read about.
I only pray Heaven knows when to lift you out.
Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough, you're going home.
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying:
"I have come home!; now
Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my, give me my wings!"
Give me my wings!
You [were / are] the light, the way, that they will only read about.
[Set as] I am in my ways and my arrogance,
[Burden of proof / Burning on through] tossed upon [the / non-] believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my [evidence / eminence],
Judith Marie, unconditional one.
Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your maker's face tonight,
Look him in the eye, look him in the eye, and tell him:
I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home.
Listen to the tales [that] romanticize,
How we follow[ed] the path of the hero.
Boast about the day [oh] when the river's overrun.
How we rise to the height of our halo.
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior.
Fading all the trials and the tribulations,
None of us have actually been there,
Not like you.
Ignorant fibbers in the congregation,
Gather 'round spewing sympathy,
Spare me.
None of them [can / could] even hold a candle up to you.
Blinded by choices, hypocrites won't see.
But enough about the collective Judas.
Who could deny you were the one
Who will [even] [need / lead] it,
[Your little] piece of the divine.
This little light of [mine'll get] you passed on to me;
[I'm gonna] let it shine to guide you safely on your way,
Your way home ...
Oh, what are they [gonna] do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they going to do when the [river's] overrun
Other than tremble [incessantly / and say slightly]?
[High is / Eyes] away
but [our lives] [are] up [on] the ground.
You [were] the light and the way, they only read about.
I only pray Heaven knows when to lift you out.
Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough, you're going home.
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying:
"I have come home!; now
Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my, give me my wings!"
Give me my wings!
You [were / are] the light, the way, that they will only read about.
[Set as] I am in my ways and my arrogance,
[Burden of proof / Burning on through] tossed upon [the / non-] believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my [evidence / eminence],
Judith Marie, unconditional one.
Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your maker's face tonight,
Look him in the eye, look him in the eye, and tell him:
I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home.