[Intro Sample The Sheltering Sky] Are you lost? Yes. Because we dont know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cant even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. My eyes were jaded So close to the centre I could not see But now they are fixed And glaring at the sacrifice to be made [Sample In the Year of the Pig] I would remind you that scripture tells us, that blessed are the peacemakers. Yet it takes a lot of doing to make peace. It takes a good deal of hard work, building like a mighty cathedral stone by stone block by block. And I sometimes wonder. Now that Im aware of the cycles I pray that I can deal Now that I have shown you these cycles I pray that you can feel In and out of the stray Taking the bait Feeling compelled to obey, betray The isle of await [Sample Presumed Innocent] Bewitched destroyed abandoned like someone left for dead suicide until a dream begins in the dream the destroyer is destroyed now with such simplicity such clarity everything falls into place the destroyer is destroyed so powerful control Running scared from their thought Thinking I can summon some ancient truth before wrong Seeking my nature, our nature with fear of being caught Or have we been like this all along Or have we been like this all along The dawn of birth gives way to men Age brings dimness to sight as it must Age brings dimness to sight as it must Death seals the eyelids on darkness once again Augmentation of the dust Or have we been like this all along Or have we been like this all along
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