Aaron Weiss - Catch for Us the Foxes

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And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see,
Like a thick fog...
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.

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On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?"
As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?"
And I kissed the filthy ground... the first dry spot I found...
I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.

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Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?

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What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?

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Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul!
I still have a thousand half-loves... oh, my God!
I want to shoot myself just thinking about it!
And you think I don't mean what I say?

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You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.

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Down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.

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Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,
And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,
But aimlessly drifting around.

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Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?

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Even the wind lay still,
Our essence was fire and cold and movement, movement...
Oh, if they ask you for the sign of the father in you,
Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and... repose.

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You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire?
To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

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Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.

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God is Love and Love is real, yet the dead are dancing with the dead

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Grape on the vine... why not be crushed to make wine?

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I threw the stones down at the reflection of my image in the water
And it altogether disappeared.
I burst as it shattered through me like a bullet through a bottle...
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real?

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I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst,
Talking all about the second and third
When I haven't understood the first.

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My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.

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Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building...
We'll be cut into shape and set into place.
Or if you'd rather be a window, I'll gladly be the frame,
Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame...

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He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet,
Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes...

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The Son of the widow
You raised from the dead...
Where did His soul go
When He died again?

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I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."

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Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?

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I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.

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So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence
Because they only come out when it's quiet,
Their tails brushing over your eyelids...
Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!

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When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boot soles.
Then I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
Till it was nothing like I'd imagined.

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And You dance inside my chest where no one sees You!

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But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.

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