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Fingers In Pie
02:21
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[Chorus]
Conspiracy see everywhere
Truth under siege
Fingers in pie, their tell-tale signs
Foolhardy deny
[Verse 1]
Trust in your gut
No if or buts
Faith in your mind
Opened your eyes blind
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Heart resonates
Path predisposed
Past life love and hates
Soul gravitates to
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Facts cherry pick
Choice prejudiced
Compile evidence
Mount your defence fight
[Repeat Chorus x2]
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[Chorus]
Blinkered their mind to reality blind plain to see
Obvious clear no denying to everyone else
Dehumanise other side demonise finger point
Never occurs in the role play reverse they the bad guys
[Verse 1]
No longer buy the lies
And everyone ruse sees through
Political spin untruth despise
Abuser becomes abused
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
No longer trust their words
Transparent self serve excuse
Agenda hidden easy to see
Abuser becomes abused
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
No longer victim buy
Provocation plain to see
No matter deny, disguise, hoodwink
Abuser becomes abused
[Spoken word]
... becomes abuser becomes abused becomes abuser becomes abused ... don't get me wrong, I'm not promoting the idea of karma in terms of action and reaction, though some might consider that a reasonable explanation for apparent entanglement of abused and abuser. For myself, I'm more interested in introspection, responsibility, and the psychology of divine empowerment.
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3. |
Can't Watch The News
02:54
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[Chorus]
Can't watch the news, poison consume
Subject your soul to prejudiced point of views
Contaminate, fear cultivate
Unconscious bias mental manipulate
[Verse 1]
What's going on
You want to know
But you suspect
Behind the scenes
Something agreed
Agenda set
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Neutrality
No matter claimed
No more believe
GBBC
The West and East
Or in between
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
That drip drip feed
Psychology
Of poison seeds
Propaganda
Win hearts and minds
But leaves you blind
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4. |
My Hour Is Late
02:46
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[Verse 1]
I really thought would know by now
Somehow I would figure out
Relationship of soul and God between
My hour is late still answer I await
[Verse 2]
So on my knees, pray pretty please
Now's the time reveal to me
Throw me a bone, show me a sign believe
My hour is late still answer I await
[Chorus]
Never mind, once more must hold my nerve
Not knowing trust somehow purpose served
[Verse 3]
I need to know to problem solve
Tell me this, is there one goal
Of life prescribed - did I get something wrong?
My hour is late still answer I await
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
What is this place, heaven or hell?
Shine a light - remove the veil
Give me a clue, I promise I won't tell
My hour is late still answers I await
[Repeat Chorus to fade]
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5. |
Blinkered Irony
02:48
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[Verse 1]
Non-judgemental
Not so easy
Once you decide you know
See reality clearly
Individual
Self divinity
Celebration
Reject
Are you one of them? Am I ...
[Chorus]
Vision spiritual compromised?
Blinkered irony my eyes?
[Verse 2]
Non-judgemental
Not so easy
Once you decide life's goal
Same for everyone prescribed
All are fallen souls
Envious of God
Sinners through and through need saved
Are you one of them? Am I ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Non-judgemental
Not so easy
Once you decide own faith
Is the only way embrace
All who see the light
They agree with you
Everybody else is blind
Are you one of them? Am I ...
[Repeat Chorus]
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6. |
Why Are You Religious?
03:20
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[Verse 1]
Why are you religious? Question motivation
Ticket to some afterlife enjoyment heaven
Vestal virgin paradise pleasure celestial
Freedom from old age, disease, eternal blissful?
[Chorus]
No! What you want
Celebrate God
Understand hand
Here and now love
[Verse 2]
Why are you religious? Question motivation
Seek redemption from temptation sinful fallen
Cosy certain self deception cheque post dated
Free from birth and death samsara soul nirvana?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Why are you religious? Question motivation
Crystallise your us and them for or against sense
Make believe God on your side, you chosen people
Self deceive your land assigned by divine decree?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Why are you religious? Question motivation
Promised land of many mansion situation
Fire and brimstone out of reach for true believer
Liberation guaranteed to faithful keeper?
[Repeat Chorus]
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7. |
Some Kind Of God
02:26
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[Verse 1]
Refuse consider/entertain
Is possible a faith misplaced
Is possible belief is wrong
Sincerity, the measure of
[Verse 2]
Conjure a factual afterlife
Sure what awaits me when I'm gone
Imagination realised
For make believe to kill and die
[Chorus v1]
But if by my will I make it real
Wouldn't that make me some kind of god?
[Verse 3]
Wishful embrace as if were known
Establish group so not alone
Demand submission without fuss
This why would God require of us?
[Chorus v2]
But if by your will you make it real
Wouldn't that make you some kind of god?
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Claim all wrapped up in name of God
Preach done and dusted dogma dog
Put down my doubts to devil's work
Deny divine in human birth
[Repeat Chorus v1]
[Spoken]
Some kind of version of ... as if the backdrop of chosen beliefs were made actual reality so that the desired experience can be fully achieved ... regardless of deeper truth.
[Repeat Chorus v2]
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8. |
Soul
03:06
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[Verse 1]
I was grown with a rooted body
Took ten year figure how to bloom
Sapling to an ancient hardwood
Tabula rasa acorn womb
Swallow the blue pill, pull wool over
Blinkered eye sight compromise
Now I'm an oak tree, past life no more
Bury deep who I was before previous
[Chorus]
Like a dream in the morning fades
Other lifetimes leave behind
Memory who I used to play
Lost to the wind, I identify body as I
[Verse 2]
I was hatched with a two wing body
Took five week figure how to fly
Play chick to a feathered mother
Tabula rasa kiss the sky
Swallow the blue pill, pull wool over
Blinkered eye sight compromise
Now I'm a seagull, past life no more
Bury deep who I was before previous
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
I was born with a four leg body
Ten minute figure how to stand
Play calf to a bovine mother
Tabula rasa fear that man
Swallow the blue pill, pull wool over
Blinkered eye sight compromise
Now I'm a longhorn, past life no more
Bury deep who I was before previous
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
I was born with a two leg body
Took one year figure how to walk
Play son to a human mother
Tabula rasa learn to talk
Swallow the blue pill, pull wool over
Blinkered eye sight compromise
Now I'm a boy-child, past life no more
Bury deep who I was before previous
[Repeat Chorus]
... where next?
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9. |
She's Not Interested
02:41
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[Chorus]
She's not interested in religion ...
Ignores spiritual progress, sows division
[Verse 1]
Awareness gets in way of
Exercises dogma dog
Is all about submission
To authority in name of God
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Lose sight of sister brother
Us and them species divide
Is more about that other
Than an understanding who am I
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Is more about compliance
Than to see with opened eyes
Keep faith embraced ignorance
Keep the folded hands and follow blind
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
All focused on life after
Value here and now dismissed
The promise of solution
To the problem that they preach exists
[Spoken]
... they define the problem, no one else, for example, no one wants to die, but you are forced to die because you are born a sinner or a fallen soul ... and then once you buy their explanation they offer you the solution ... doesn't that sound a little bit like politics or business marketing? Define the problem, create one if necessary, then offer the solution! Sell sell sell.
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[Chorus]
Conditioned by milieu inborn
Morality, social norms
Society, country of birth
Colour of skin, kith and kin
[Verse 1]
Do any truly rise above
Completely soul transcend influence of
Embedded prejudice of times
Contextual cultural collective mind?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Can anybody naked stand
Untainted by established attitudes
Entitlement to promised land
Religious belief dogma absolutes?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
I wonder too about guru
Of platform adhikārī uttama
Do they speak purely for their time
For deśa kāla pātra teach divine?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Is everybody of their time
Will any ever breach maya divide
The blinkered veil of here and now
Objective see reality some how?
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Songs Of Dave England, UK
David's songs are generally confessional or observational in nature, sometimes comedic or ironic, mostly of philosophical or theosophical subject-matter ... often in the form of imagined dialogue with God.
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