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    A secular song that somehow encapsulates my religious sensibilities

    All vulgarity and silliness aside, this song has always uniquely captured my spiritual essence, at least as I understand it, at least now.  :)  I love the asceticism, the apocalyptic yearning, the witnessing of degradation but with the eye of beauty.

    Beck - We Live Again (from Mutations)

    These withered hands
    Have dug for a dream
    Sifted through sand
    And leftover nightmares
    Over the hill
    A desolate wind
    Turns shit to gold
    And blows my soul crazy
    The end
    O the end
    We live again
    O I grow weary of the end
    O hungry days
    The footsteps of fools
    Gazing alone
    Through sex-painted windows
    Dredging the night
    Drunk libertines
    Stink like a colognes
    From the newfangled wasteland
    The end
    O the end
    We live again
    O I grow weary of the end
    Love is a plague
    In a mix-match parade
    Where the castaways look so deranged
    When will the children learn
    To let their wildernesses burn
    And love will be new never cold and vacant
    These withered hands have dug for a dream
    Sifted through sand and leftover nightmares
    The end
    Of the end
    We live again



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    • 30 October 2009
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