In the Beginning
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lyrics
In the beginning there was light
God made it out of darkness
It was good or so they say
And all the people fold their hands
Rest their heads on one another
Yes and they begin to pray
In the beginning there was cold
There was emptiness and loneliness
It stretched into foreverness
Where nothing really was
Until nothingness receded
And something else came into being
And the story goes: that it was: love
In the beginning there was you
There you were all by yourself
And I heard that it was true
You didn’t miss having anybody else
In the beginning there was sorrow
There was scorn and there was fear
We were thrown out of the garden
so we held each other near
And we tied ourselves together
and we held each other tight
and we stared up at the light
In the beginning there was music
These were the songs that you would sing
As I sprawled across your bedroom floor
and the world began to spin
There was rain upon the window
There were clouds across your eyes
There were creatures in the oceans
There were birds up in the sky
And so you sit down at your desk to write / this tragic tale, this hero’s plight / on through the never-ending night / the march goes slowly forward / And the narcissistic daily plot / newspapermen had nigh forgot / for seeing only what they sought / the truth went unreported / And the atavistic conqueror / who sought to settle every score / knew not what nature does abhor / and promptly was escorted / And my demons too were exorcised / The hounds of hell are euthanized / and all of us have alibis / the soldier’s sons retorted / And onward paranoia creeps / we pray the lord our souls to keep / and count the electronic sheep / the shepherd will be bringing / And drink from the forgotten cup / but cannot blur our minds enough / to let our souls be covered up / while to the earth we’re clinging / And gravity will be recalled / the ground will rise, the sky will fall / we’ll climb up on the highest wall / and hear the bells a-ringing / And our lungs fill up with pesticides / our synapses electrified / my tongue has been anaesthetized / and still I can’t stop singing
(Nobody knows where I am)
God made it out of darkness
It was good or so they say
And all the people fold their hands
Rest their heads on one another
Yes and they begin to pray
In the beginning there was cold
There was emptiness and loneliness
It stretched into foreverness
Where nothing really was
Until nothingness receded
And something else came into being
And the story goes: that it was: love
In the beginning there was you
There you were all by yourself
And I heard that it was true
You didn’t miss having anybody else
In the beginning there was sorrow
There was scorn and there was fear
We were thrown out of the garden
so we held each other near
And we tied ourselves together
and we held each other tight
and we stared up at the light
In the beginning there was music
These were the songs that you would sing
As I sprawled across your bedroom floor
and the world began to spin
There was rain upon the window
There were clouds across your eyes
There were creatures in the oceans
There were birds up in the sky
And so you sit down at your desk to write / this tragic tale, this hero’s plight / on through the never-ending night / the march goes slowly forward / And the narcissistic daily plot / newspapermen had nigh forgot / for seeing only what they sought / the truth went unreported / And the atavistic conqueror / who sought to settle every score / knew not what nature does abhor / and promptly was escorted / And my demons too were exorcised / The hounds of hell are euthanized / and all of us have alibis / the soldier’s sons retorted / And onward paranoia creeps / we pray the lord our souls to keep / and count the electronic sheep / the shepherd will be bringing / And drink from the forgotten cup / but cannot blur our minds enough / to let our souls be covered up / while to the earth we’re clinging / And gravity will be recalled / the ground will rise, the sky will fall / we’ll climb up on the highest wall / and hear the bells a-ringing / And our lungs fill up with pesticides / our synapses electrified / my tongue has been anaesthetized / and still I can’t stop singing
(Nobody knows where I am)
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from Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals,
released October 3, 2013
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Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals Seattle, Washington
Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals is a six-piece folk-apocalypse band from Seattle, WA, featuring cello, violin, theremin, bucket drumming, and four-part harmonies, not to mention heartfelt songs about love, life, and the end of the world. DL&PI has been bringing their cacophonous blend of indie rock, folk, punk, country, and jazz to the barrooms and bedrooms of the Puget Sound since 2012. ... more
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