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Chapter & Verse

by Quiet Child

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1.
Redshift 04:52
2.
Some people need to choose which story they'll believe Before their doomsaying begins to sound naive And when their children start to doubt there even is a god An incremental step that benefits mankind The Book of Matthew says to love thy neighbour well But if he lays with men he's going straight to hell Of course, his life on earth will end under a hail of stones A vengeful judgement from an everloving god Now may we note, with shock, the leaders of the land Hearing voices, taking cash in every hand And if we don't agree with a spectre needing souls to save An incremental step for us all So it's time for some decisions Are these stories worth the keeping? Do we bow to words of ancients? Do we swallow pseudo morals? With fire and ice, they strike each other down Drunk on power, they strike their brother down And even when the words ring hollow They send their hail of stones The longest song of sorrow the words has ever know
3.
Oh, Christopher When you die they'll laugh for hours I believe in equality, every thug for himself Born again in an avalanche of scorn Just when one would perceive you lost Cravens crawl out of shadows To accuse you of christianity, a lie! Oh, Christopher When you die they'll laugh for hours What must they think of us, spewing forth their vitriol The stoic crawl in your final months Gives us hope to stare our own mortality down To face the cold of a godless death So thanks, and goodbye I hope that cancer finds you just as disagreeable As some apologists found you to be And when the scavenger dogs of the undergrowth Begin their long and sombre task to turn your bones to soil Just know There are those of us who'll wield your words as swords
4.
Outside A quiet night A stillness moves through me And there's only me Is this sky a sea of night? I'm on the precipice, waiting to jump off
5.
Some of you have the mark, I see it on your face And I just can't take it anymore! Seems like his guidance sets my blood to boil And there, the rabbit lays with all our dreams rearranged It moves without a sound Will all my hunts end this way? Now I will strike All, in time, forgiven I will strike
6.
We sound the alarm to ask what motivates The worst of us, and the fear they generate A communist, a catholic and a martyr We know their crimes and we blame their higher power But we find the rot beginning somewhere else No light in his eye and a canyon in his brow And he speaks with all the authority that the internet allows Repeats the same lines that we all know now by heart We know the words before they tumble out Down with the ones who would perpetrate Atrocities in the name of a higher power Here's to the ones who celebrate A quiet, personal faith over dogma Good riddance to the man who would instigate Genocide for the sake of mother Russia Down with the ones who would perpetrate Atrocities in the name of dogma
7.
She gave a look like snow amongst the coal Her colour high and dark red And all I could think was, whose finger is on the switch The smouldering girl or her god? Who left her here with all the crippled minds? A ghost of young flesh and bone and walls She sings along to the songs she's learned from birth One ancient hand over her mouth and eyes The worlds needs it's girls and it boys To follow the truth where it lurks If it's hard or unfair Well, at least we know we're not fools anymore She took a breath and the scent was sweet to taste Her lifelong sleep of doubt now past Until I pass through, at least there's one disease My poor heart won't need to bear The whole wants it's parts to ignore The venomous words raining down Like the guns of the past Or the gods that we made to explain why we're here But we no longer need to pretend we don't understand Why our days come and go Why there's life or why there're starts Casting their glow where they will We must search for the truth And find joy in the years that we have to be here
8.
Into Death 10:06
If I were honest I'd tell you that I wish for an afterlife with you I just want more time with you But into death we'll fall No knowledge of, no thought Oh, for the stories and songs from my youth, I remember Miracles hidden inside beards and robes The worlds of David and Jonah and Job A chance at eternal life in paradise The universe offers non of this Just indifference, something I've come to love And into death we'll fall No knowledge of, no thought
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10.
Hubris 03:01
Guns + Babies + Jesus Now what does that equal? Home fucking run! Man of the year But with so many white snakes Who should be colourblind I'll be surprised if you make it Past the guns in their pockets And as we wake up and look under the make up And we smile at the changes and step out into Eden To find snakes all around us!
11.
Curiosity 02:45
12.
Bonewreath 09:32
For years you have been a teacher And I am thankful for your words And when I sought your wisdom You taught with kindness and with love Father, why do you forget yourself? It's as if, sometimes, you're not yourself In league with my admiration There is a question I must ask How can your intellectualism Coexist with fairy tales As dusk begins, as your life's work ends How can one look back on what they've done When so many others still have not begun to try To reason why Sixty years of listening to the word To find this late it's mostly quite absurd And I wonder, is there some satisfaction as you see This crushing cycle finally cease to be
13.
Poor Lamb 06:26
The last time I saw her The poor lamb had fallen asleep on the train, on the train Sophie, wait around, she's waking up And there should be another woman nearby Do you remember me? One more face without the means to help Without the means to help Sophie, wait around, she's waking up And there should be another woman nearby At least you escaped to be here with us Sophie, wait around, there're things to say
14.
We might look and see design And then ask If I see design, then who designed? Those who might be easily satisfied Find their truths in religious lies, from religious minds But what eyes can see is what is easily believed In the maze of electric fire There's no design Atoms, ions, cells alike Show no design No one designed me What millions of years has wrought Is what we are and always were

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released February 1, 2014

Quiet Child: Peter Spiker, Brent Carraill, Ashley Spain

All songs by Peter Spiker, except "Redshift" by Paul Backman

Recorded, mixed, mastered at home.

Thanks to: Paul Backman, Pelley, Ran, Alex, Young Mr. Gary Spain, Darren Hincks, Podie, Jim Jimmers, Dutto & Loz, Buckell & Ali, Puff.

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