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The Wilderness is Not for Purchase

from THERE IS NO NEED TO NAME THE MOON by The Light Switches

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lyrics

good evening i'm a heathen and i stand accused of treason
but believe me while i'm breathing i'm not afraid of thieving
lots of people's making babies and someone's got to feed them
go tell it on the mountaintop with everyone repeating

the wilderness / is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s
the wilderness / is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s

money is made from men on the moon and hearts are made for breaking
making love is always evil when it's shameful to be naked
you don't need to be an astronaut if you have imagination
if the money's unforgiving then the law is for the taking

the wilderness is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s
the wilderness is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s

there's love that seeks out fortune and love that's left behind
from the insanity of wisdom by the depravity of time
unwinding in the music that is magic never-mind
said the statue to the statues that were stationed in a line behind
the signs of life abandoned by the language of the blind divined
by sultry repetition immaterial to time we find
when the night falls, the bats call and the stars shine on the pratfalls
in the baseball and the opera; Zarathustra, Cleopatra
the mahatma, Kali Yuga, Dalai Lama, Martin Luther
Kama Sutra, Alyosha, Dulcinea, Messasoia
the Sequoia, the Coyote, Woody Guthrie, Goyaate
Myamoto Musashi in Hindi and Farsi
Italian and Japanese, the crescent moon, the banyon trees
The setting sun, the seven seas, the air you breath, the blood you bleed

the wilderness is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s
the wilderness is not for purchase/ the will of god is not the church’s

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from THERE IS NO NEED TO NAME THE MOON, released February 14, 2014

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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