[Chorus] The quickening is an ephemeral thing That only happens in the dark Like catching lightning in a jar And the pain that it brings Is just the promise of spring It's madness on the...

I'm at war with the world and they Try to pull me into the dark I struggle to find my faith As I'm slippin' from your arms It's getting harder to stay awake And my strength is fading fast You brea...

The quickening is an ephemeral thi...hat only happens in the dark ...And the pain that it brings...Is just the promise of spring ...It's madness on the way ...The entering is soulful...Oh, lost and by the wind-grieved coast ...Because the way that she bleeds...To pierce the fame of the sacred and profane ...ence, in service of the faith ...But who will bear the mark of Cain?

Library pictures of the quickening canoe...The first of it's kind to get to the moon... to chase you round the room...Been watching all the neon blossom, flick...oing riding through the thunder circle, fuz...Library pictures of the quickening canoe...The first of it's kind to get to the moon

Himmler are turning the screws ...The Fuhrer they say gro...On the second night of the...But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane ...In three hours the transport ships wil... warn them warn all the Jews" ... Melchior stands in the synagogue ...The raids come tomorrow...And it's fire up the diesel and look out...We'll pray the patrol boats don't ...When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night ...So it's over the Øresund ...Till the day we can welcome ...Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashana..."The Lord is my light an... gentile steps into the glow ...Of the candle with tears f...And as quickly the young man is gone ...ll their friends of the quickening storm ...cycles race through the streets ...And Katlev the foreman blurts out to the trainman ...g 'em to my house," the stranger replies ..."And we'll spit in the damn Nazi's eyes" ...Ellen Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Dragør ...She'll call out the catch, "Fresh salmo... you're not safe on the street ...nrise they sleep in the shade of her eaves ...And escape on the fisherman's keel ...Morning light shows the same Danish coast ...Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the German blockade ...The rabbi gives a shout...traight line 'cross the sound ...ozen with fright in the October night ...ing each breath for the angel of death ...The Gestapo, the shot, the alarm ...Then down into the hold with the stench and the cold ...And drug all the babies with schnapp...When the war's over the Jews return ...or martyrs," so say the Danes

The lady folded ...With the strings of a veil. ...That made the table ...And then the darkness came ...And here through the window ...I saw a quickening eye. ...In the blowing night ...And pulled the shade ...And from the visions ...And from the visions ...That cast the ships ...And burn the ringing ...Then the morning came ...Lapping up the winds ...From the tainted table ...Like the birds of high ...Wings in the sun

I spit, to make the mic like a flammabl...Metaphysical, the syllables in critic...e with rhymes since the biblical times ...d with a sword from the Mongul Horde ...Speak the tongue of the lord, to bless my v...el straight through the jaw ...ke if I sipped from the grail ...Sleepin' by the third rail where the A Train runs ...ght trains from off the ground ...walkin' around, I'm the talk of the town ...So I'm on the low hiding from the average man ... me to intruders in the sewers where I secr... rhymes until I got the hottest style ...Then wrestle the mics from mutated c...That slipped into the pipes sometime in '...terranean, and melt the steel titanium ...I'll spin the axis backwards, mak...capitatin' catchin' the quickening when I'm spittin ...Slaughter all the competition when ri

Of the faces gathered round me and the clock upon my wall ...and in mourning but the china timepiece lau...As it counts away the seconds (it knows a...I cross the fine dividing line....That separates the dear departed from ...The moment when my wear...I fracture the shell of this solit...Embrace the unknown as my frien...So up from the ashes a phoenix I r...To a 'quickening' fetus (the new inf...The cycle continues - i...I separate the dear departed from ...The moment when your we

The faith we'd placed i...Well, the seasons changed - but the chill remains ...The silence is broken ...A quickening - a bitter end ...The rebirth has begun ...In the words one should bu...Broken! the silence is broken! ...aid, nothings done! the silence is broken!

ht, looking up into the sky. ...It's the biggest rocket I co...And it's holding the night in its arms ...I can't see the look in its eyes ...ut it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd e...Home to the quickening ground ...And I strap the stick on my back ...Then with the fuse in my hand ...d now shooting into the night ...I land in the river.

You dive in, at the shallow end ...The glass house, that y...Is deep in the, quickening ...In the next 7 days (In the next) ...The story that ...Called the fountain, of know t...Still upon the shelf ...On the waves, of a sinking...e and we'll sail on the waves ...e and we'll sail on the waves

rmon)- "back...with the flyest material" ...Sermon)- "back with the...funky...beats" ...Packing the third eye rush you ...id decked out write the books for next year...re like ronald then the fuckin fry guys ...Pope John Paul the second, brain like ...ir and four more on the way down ...The eight straight strays to a kid's hair on the playground ...Snap the airbag, hit the corner and park it ...cked and grabbed by the hair and dragged ... flashin' i'ma take the last hit ...tting whack shit on the microphone ... flashin' i'ma take the last hit ...Get the greater rate with t...To the point when you stan...The quickening, did a ?briss? at the crispening ...isin', to uplifting the foot stage ...This thing's the nicest, i keep tell...What the fuck this guy on the corner been selling...m e-mailing you, at the wrong website ..., break you and put the fear of hell in you...pe above you, stuff the nurse in a purse ...riving off, leaving the murdered virgin at ...The first person searching the earth for the motherfucker ...That pulled the plug when they shoulda alerted the surgeon first ... flashin' i'ma take the last hit (Eminem: "...tting whack shit on the microphone ... flashin' i'ma take the last hit ...to the High & Mighty ...pyright : Lyrics © The Bicycle Music Compa

In a mansion high the young man stood...Outside the scent of Magnolia b...own streets of gold the children were racin...Adrift among the stars...Outside the clouds were swiftly...cup and his stirred the mixture...Adrift among the stars...Outside the children gazed in w...At the quickening sky then slowly dis...Adrift among the stars...led by his hand for the mind of another man...Who makes the decisions...ns to be to possess the skin...And bones of man the blood of man...Who tends the flock who breaks the bread

Now the bitter, now the sweet...Neither quickening the grueling pace...Neither leading in the race ...In the race ...In the race ...(In the race)...In the race ...Now the bitter, now the sweet...As the storms of life must...Words be only turn the page...Now the day (Now the day-ay-ay) ...And now the night...Now the wrong and now the right...The day and night, the wrong and right...Now the bitter, now the sweet...Equal standing in the light of man...Now the bitter, now the sweet...Now the sweet (Now the sweet) ...Now the sweet...(Now the sweet)

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adness we all feel, the spinning of the wheel...e’s an aching for the innocence lost before the oceans ...ound their way into the valleys and the canyons...Yes, but underneath the comfort of our dinn...e’s a fumbling of the moments, Cause we k...morning, Cast aside the scorning ...Of the second-hand clock ticking, Quickening the moments ...ld, and walk across the mountains wild...when I walk down by the ocean and I’m los

I see her from the deep garden...The bedroom light is fl...To the pounding of your he...All the shadows and the ghosts...To the sound of beating dr...anymore so just let the madness come...here's something in the way she moves that ...(The end of me) The end of me is in the...name but it becomes the wind...e) A subtle urge, a quickening of footfalls