Earth - Sleeping at Last

[00:00.00]I dig ’til my shovel tells a secret,
[00:04.97]Swear to the earth that I will keep it,
[00:09.71]Brush off the dirt
[00:12.56]And let my change of heart occur.
[00:18.70]Sold soon after the appraisal,
[00:22.10]The hammer struck the auction table
[00:26.22]Louder than anything I’ve ever heard.
[00:34.24]Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house.
[00:39.79]But I put it out of my mind
[00:44.15]Long enough to call it courage
[00:48.10]To live without a lifeline.
[00:52.12]I bend the definition
[00:54.32]Of faith to exonerate my blind eye.
[01:00.14]'til the sirens sound, I’m safe.
[01:06.47]Meanwhile, my family’s taking shelter.
[01:10.24]The sparks send the fire down the wire,
[01:14.11]A countdown begins,
[01:17.38]Until the dynamite gives in.
[01:22.49]The echo, as wide as the equator,
[01:26.34]Travels through a world of built up anger
[01:32.33]Too late to pull itself together now.
[01:38.31]Fault lines tremble underneath our glass house.
[01:44.80]But I put it out of my mind
[01:48.21]Long enough to call it courage
[01:51.93]To live without a lifeline.
[01:56.23]I bend the definition
[01:58.80]Of faith to exonerate my blind eye.
[02:04.18]'til the sirens sound, I’m safe.
[02:11.83]There was an earthquake.
[02:19.38]There was an avalanche of change.
[02:28.30]We were so afraid,
[02:35.62]We cried ourselves a hurricane.
[02:43.75]There were floods,
[02:47.43]Tidal waves over us,
[02:51.75]So we folded our hands and prayed.
[02:59.82]Like a domino,
[03:03.36]These wildfires grow and grow
[03:07.76]Until a brand new world takes shape.
[03:18.38]Fault lines tremble underneath our glass house.
[03:24.30]But I put it out of my mind
[03:28.15]Long enough to call it courage
[03:32.00]To live without a lifeline.
[03:36.23]I bend the definition
[03:38.24]Of faith to exonerate my blind eye.
[03:44.18]'til the sirens sound, I’m safe.
[03:52.21]'til the sirens sound, I’m safe.
[04:00.14]'til the sirens sound, I’m safe.
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