Arches

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…..

And I am done with my graceless heart

So tonight I’m gonna cut it out and then restart

‘Cause I like to keep my issues drawn

It’s always darkest before the dawn

Shake it out, shake it out

Shake it out, shake it out, oh whoa…..

And it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back

So shake him out, oh whoa

And it’s hard to dance with the devil on your back

And given half the chance, would I take any of it back

It’s a fine romance but it’s left me so undone

It’s always darkest before the dawn

And I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t

So here’s to drinks in the dark, at the end of my rope

And I’m ready to suffer and I’m ready to hope

It’s a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat

‘Cause looking for heaven, for the devil in me

Looking for heaven, for the devil in me

But what the hell, I’m gonna let it happen to me, yeah!

Shake it out, shake it out

Shake it out, shake it out, oh whoa

”

“What we look for beyond seeing
and call the unseen,
Listen for beyond hearing
and call the unheard,
Grasp for beyond reaching
and call the withheld,
Merge beyond understanding
in a oneness
Which does not merely rise and give light,
does not merely set and leave darkness,
but forever sends forth a succession of living
things as mysterious
as the unbegotten existence to which they return.”