Too
(B. Mosley)
appears on Light & Blood
Someone wrote most of these words to me in a ‘Dear John’ email of sorts.
“When the world gives you lemons…shut the fuck up and eat your lemons.”
—my Dad
When Light & Blood came out, my Mom told me this was her favorite song of mine.
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You must learn one thing
You must learn one thing
This world was made to be free in
Give up all the other worlds
Except the one to which you belong
Give up all the other worlds
All the other worlds
Except the one to which you belong
Sometimes
Sometimes
It takes darkness and the sweet confinement
Of your aloneness
To learn that anyone or anything
That does not bring you alive
Is too small for you
That anyone or anything
That does not bring you alive
Is too small for you
I’m not trying to be different
Am I different to be trying?
Somewhere I swear
A Bodhisattva’s chuggin’
On a beer alone and cryin’
He’d be reeling from the feeling
Of the fearing and praying
On our own kind
A witness weeping still and silent
While his dream abides the time
You must learn one thing
You must learn one thing
This world was made to be free in
Give up all the other worlds
Except the one to which you belong
Give up all the other worlds
All the other worlds
Except the one to which you belong
Sometimes
Sometimes
It takes darkness and the sweet confinement
Of your aloneness
To learn that anyone or anything
That does not bring you alive
Is too small for you
That anyone or anything
That does not bring you alive
Is too small for you