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Single. Written the day after 9-11 and recorded the day after that, this song definitely captures my horrific hurt and outrage. I have to honestly admit that I knew that last line that leads into the instrumental expression of rage would be viewed as quite jingoistic. I too felt like I wanted to get my fingers around the throat of those responsible for this, although I felt outrage was a proper response and found it difficult at the time to find anything wrong with attacking Al Qaida in Afghanistan that I never supported the invasion of Iraqi. I mean if from my humble point of view I could see what a disaster the invasion of Iraqi would be, why couldn't the powers that be see it? My guess is that they could but just didn't care or even worse, they could and actually desired it to be so.

In retrospect all of it seems to have done much more harm than any good. I can't say I'm a strict pacifist but there is certainly good reason to think war only begets more war and nothing more.

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Cool September morning; summer’s all but finished,
Sad shafts of sunlight thru clouds as if the sun’s ashamed to show its face,
The traffic limps along; could be just another day,
But I went to sleep in the land of dreams and woke up in some other place.

Waking up,
From nightmares to truth.

I dreamt of brothers and sisters and enemies,
And a faceless tragedy that polarized right and wrong,
I dreamt of buildings, birds and bones and the gnashing of teeth,
And more sorrow and pain than would ever fit into the melody of song.

Waking up,
From truth to pain.

I struggle so hard to understand the hate,
But there is nothing in dreams or in flesh that serve as explanation,
So I watch my brothers and sisters die just for the sake of evil,
And the bitter fruit of rage seems over-ripe with justification.

Waking up,
Sleeping lion.


September 12, 2001

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

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