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Philosophical Thief

from Holy Whole by Thinkspeak

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This song is mostly about how we construct a notion of reality and often then confuse that construction with what it's pointing at. What is pointed at is what attracts us, clearly the highest value once we experience it. Conflict between religion will cease once this is realized. The English word red and the French word rouge both point at the same thing. Hatred, greed, fear and violence too will evaporate once this basic truth is assimilated, one by one, by the people.

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There's a ball of fire where I call the east
that means it's early morning take we now our feast - oh

half way through a meeting put it up a chart
I feel like i'm bleeding circling as shark - oh

scratching on a lottery drop it in the trash
is this to be my destiny watching my dreams crash - oh

underneath a gas light European street
longing for an insight philosophic thief - oh oh

in a sector of my brain a vague and smokey thought
nudging me to look again at where and how i'm caught - oh

somewhere other where than here nothing happens fast
something in the spinning spheres generates the past - oh

the nature of reality at which we cast words
such as this: frequency love the only verb - oh oh

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from Holy Whole, released December 15, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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