Divine Discontent lyrics

Like a million parachutes
The snow's coming down
I lock up the front door
And turn the lights down
In the glow of the street lights
I see them descent
Like a million parachutes
Small men on a mission

I miss the warm
And I miss the sun
And I miss the ocean
I miss everyone
And I miss the bridges
That span across the bay
Tonight, it seems like ages ago

Like a million parachutes

It's every day
I'm in this place
I feel this way
I feel the same

It's every day
I'm in this place
I feel this way
I feel the same

Is it all inside my head?
Is it all inside my head?

I view the list
And take my pick
I view my fate
And make the choice
'Cause it's nobody else's but mine

But You're in my heart
I can feel Your beat
And You move my mind
From behind the wheel

I'm like Thomas, doubting
Fingers routing the scars
Of Your wrists and side
Touching flesh will make my mind believe

But I want to be like David
Throw his clothes to the wind
To dance a jig, in my skin
And be remade by your cleansing again

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I give You myself
It's all that I have
Broken and frail
I'm clay in Your hands
And I'm spinning unconcealed
Dizzy on this wheel

There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me

Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win

I dreamt of something last night in my sleep;
I saw you sitting in a room without me;
You were smiling and you had a tattoo;
Of me, in a room without you.

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I aim my cannon at you ready or not;
You're gonna feel my pain, like it or not;
You've got your debts to pay and you are one of mine
You're down and out of time.

And there is something I wanted to say:

Eyes wide open all the time
just like a drug store in the city
where she walks the streets at night
time keeps ticking like the ocean through a sieve
ever on or ever forward in a march

hallelujah
and she's one for the money
two for the show time to go
back to life back to dreams
without tears
she's saving what she killed
she'll build herself a loom
and spin another womb

So I'm waiting by a phone for the blessed ring
Like a Holy Grail for the Fisher King
Time is ticking down like a metronome
Rhythm for my brain, and ceaseless scales
I never seem to play them to the beat I hear
Though my heartbeat is a beat, that beats so near

So we had a talk last night about the heavy blow
That you dealt in fright, your back against the wall

You're a painting with symbols deep, a symphony
Soft as it shifts from dark beneath.
A poem that flows, caressing my skin,
In all of these things you reside
And I
Want to flow from the pen, bow and brush,
Then paper and string, and canvas tight,
With ink in the air, to dust your light,
From morning to the black of night

Chorus
This is my call I belong to You,

I look out to the fields
Where blood is shed upon the ground
I breathe in, breathe out
Change the channel, mute the sound
I take a match, a cigarette, and a walk to clear my head
My stomach's reeling at the thought of all those human beings dead

I breathe in, breathe out
And go to do an interview
About a song, three minutes long
I just need something to do
Especially when my dearest friend

you are the burning
the flame that is turning
my smoldering ash into a bird
so stay close my brother
I couldn't stand the loss
you are the bridge of action
I need you to help me cross
I need you to help me

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so when you break,
my arms I'll take hold of you
I know your heart is a hand that takes hold of me

my hand that is breaking
is the hand that is making

do I murder
when I forget you from afar
too drunk on the poison of endless roads
and the countless smokey bars

but tension is to be loved
when it is like a passing note
to a beautiful, beautiful chord

do I murder us
putting pavement in my veins
shooting in that special heroin
for the seeking and displaced

but tension is to be loved
when it is like a passing note

tonight it's time
choose a direction
if you fail
you can make a correction

slowly now
make life faster
make you mine
but for once this time

insight, to know
where i'm supposed to go
inside, so hard to know
to know where i'm supposed to go
tonight
tonight

tonight it's time
choose a direction
if you fail
you can make a correction

slowly now
make life faster
make you mine
but for once this time

I'm going nowhere
And I'm going to take my time
All the questions in the world
I can leave in my mind
I'm waiting on the sunshine
The sunshine

I'm waiting for answers
I'm waiting to figure it out
I trip over my chances
I slip trough my doubt

I'm going nowhere
And I'm going to take my time
All the questions in the world
I can leave in my mind
I'm waiting on the sunshine
The sunshine