Jacky Nimble and the Silver Crystals - Dream of dreams

from Fighting Evil by Moonlight split by Taylor Moon // Jacky Nimble and the Silver Crystals

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I never met my uncle Doug because when he was a senior at the University of Buffalo he self-immolated in a field. It really rocked my dad's family, and over 35 years later I remain the only person who's gone through his old things. I found a lot in his writings and book collection that I identified with, from feelings of isolation to his passion for science, philosophy, and justice. His copy of "Civil Disobedience" was heavily noted and the first time I read Thoreau. He wrote a lot of poems on his typewriter, so I put this one to music.

G D C Em Em C F G

The world is but a pretty place
To let my passions sound
Its doors are open every night
To let good loves abound

The senses are the passions stuff
Make the night the day
And make mere time a simpleton
Which flows and fades away

The mind is not a writ of good
For those that not need thoughts
Which rob the senses of their zest
With goods and shoulds and oughts

A life is ones own masterpiece
Whose meaning one knows naught
To sell the fivefold diadem
Makes death a nearby lot

A tangible's a thing to touch
A sight's a thing to see
The bell's a ringing to be heard
The soul's a thing to free

The lilac makes the soul awake
At such a central point
As brings a near thing nearer still
Until its core anoint

To taste of life's a thing much spoke
In our world of Philistines
To try to is the whim of whims
To do so dream of dreams

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from Fighting Evil by Moonlight split, released August 6, 2014
Douglas Radl - words
Luke - music

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