Black Sand

from Find Your Way by Hearts&Mines

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The sun is too hot can we put it out?
The farmers are starving from years of drought.
How long will it take us to figure out?
The man in the suit plants the seeds of doubt.

As the gulf weeps softly, we turn away
The past repeating, the tightrope frays
The darkness pours in and fills your lungs
The lies, they kill us. The truth it stung.

When it's in your eyes, how are you going to see?
When it's in your mouth, how are you going to breathe?
If you've bought the truth, it won't set you free.
Now take this stand.
Take it with me.
All of the lies, we won't believe.
Like babies born on Christmas Eve,
Explain what we can't conceive.

If we're so far in, then which way is out?
We are the people, we have no clout
How long will it take us to figure out
The man with the noose takes a drink and shouts:
"Do not go softly! Don't turn away!
If you're heart's beating let me hear you say
When the darkness pours in and fills your lungs
They will to kill us, their will be done!"
Why can't you see that the important thing
Is not your greed, but need?

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from Find Your Way, released May 24, 2011

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