THE BODY LYRICS

1. The Last Form Of Loving

As you are to me
The before and after
Blessed hands call your name
Sing every song
A love above all things
The stillness in the world
The brave are patient
The light that survives us

2. Can Carry No Weight

Why pain?
Why pain begin?
Why pain continue?
Why desire?
Why desire exist?
Why desire continue?
Why man and why nature?
Why man’s nature to suffer?
Why man’s nature to continue to exist?

3. Partly Alive

I've come away from my mind
Through my own fails and lies.
Have been and come away
Oh God to the cross.
Have packed up all the years
Buried them in the ground
The moment has come.
Half-belief in tomorrows and forgotten the past.
The wear and tear of many years.

4. The West Has Failed

Towers made from belief collapse
Fade from memory
Recalled not from legend nor custom
Structures built from dreams
Abandoned of all but disappointment
A time when hope seemed real
Monuments to failures
Monuments to ruins

5. Nothing Stirs

Concerned only with endings
A life desires closure
Eyes closed in anticipation
Time will not notice
You are nothing
A door opens

When your love is gone
What is left
At night a prayer of death
At day a curse of life
March on

6. Off Script

What have you left that stirs you so
What so affects you
A voice that truly moves and you to be moved in return
A soulless suck presented to the world
Child's heart and false poise
Ragged robes and a crown of splinters

7. An Urn

Some were with him at the hour and location
And confirm the joy and the beauty
Some recall the flowers and placement of finery
Possible futures glistened
Others recall a change
The darkness
The pall descending
Rejection
Sadness
The wounds
The silences
You have left

The whole sky to black
The whole earth to hell
You have left never to return
Somewhere there is heaven
And you shall find it
And I will wait
Forgotten a hundred times

8. Blessed, Alone

For these things I weep
A lifetime of kneeling
Beg and plead
To burn down every part, of every life
There's no living beauty
Pain and sorrow live side by side
In unending night
Heavy mourning
They won't cry for us
They won't cry for us

At this place
No hope
Why can't it survive
No comfort
To soften the blows
Has hollowed the heart
Has calloused the hands
Has avowed the decline
Has ushered the collapse
Has confirmed the loss

9. Sickly Heart Of Sand

All we ever wanted
All untenable
All we believe we need
Fouled by needs actual
Hands are emptied, dirtied
Living only through beliefs

Love in a filthy heart
Filth through loving hands
That built walls around it
And believe it is a home
A home that is broken
A home in ruins

10. Ten Times A Day, Every Day, A Stranger

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THE BODY LYRICS