Name: Hymn 101
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: Cut out, Blues in Code. Started for Blues in Code and finished some time after that record. I tend to know exactly where I'm going, this is one of those few songs that ended up in a radically different place from where it started.

Hymn 101

from Sound & Time Vol. II - Room Full of Toys by Michael McGuire

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Cut out, Blues in Code. Started for Blues in Code and finished some time after that record. I tend to know exactly where I'm going, this is one of those few songs that ended up in a radically different place from where it started.

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Beat the back of your habit’s slave,
Chase this ghost back to its grave,
Take it deep; a holy breath,
Give the past its well earned death,
Chant the rhyme then toss the dust,
Skim the water’s soul from the raindrop’s rust,
Break the rhythm with a new dance coup,
Feel the blood of Eden that flows in you.

Put some soul into your body,
Take some matter off your mind,
Let the vision see,
Don’t look yourself blind.

This song is in vibe with the cosmic hum,
Offer your heart-strings and strut to the strum,
After you’ve opened and shut the book of why,
Shake off your curse and give why-not a try,
It all means nothing that’s why it’s worth your all,
You couldn’t dream of flight without the fear of the fall,
Spread the ashes of your philosophy to the seven winds,
And just drift to the river’s impromptu bends.

Put some soul into your body,
Take some matter off your mind,
Let the vision see,
Don’t look yourself blind.

If nothing worth living for is the part that kills you,
Then nothing worth dying for ought to pull you thru,
This world just spins on a dreamer’s snore,
Don’t pick at the dream until it’s sore,
It’s worth more or less what you pay for it,
Don’t spend what you have on some piece of shit,
It’s something new that’s older than the stars,
And you’re healed forever when you wear these scars.

Put some soul into your body,
Take some matter off your mind,
Let the vision see,
Don’t look yourself blind.

Sept. 98

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from Sound & Time Vol. II - Room Full of Toys, released January 6, 2015

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