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from precious fallible gods by GREGORY

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lyrics

I remember this…
A cold remark and it washes this away
There it is again, the falsity, the stain
And it leads me away from this…

It clings to the underside
Of petulance and shame
But I have never been more focused
I have never been this sane
And it led me to here…

This fragile structure
Has congealed around our lives
And framed grand mysteries
With ignorance and lies
It feels like I’ve been here before…

Can we differentiate
Our accomplishments from loss?
Can we ever bear a truth
Bereft of all we sought?
I’m staking fables to the wall…

In fine entanglements
We shape compelling social knots
With brief integrity
That nature never wrought
Then we flutter away…

Never been this close
So captured by the end of things
I can’t seem to let them go
Now nothing else remains
So enchanting and vain…

MEMORY is a cruel device
Pertinacious and callow
EMOTION is a lie in disguise
Impetuous and fallow
LIFE is a cold trial
Impersonal and trite
And TIME is a bitch
We have lost our way…

And now by all I know
I have never found a way
To frame my disbelief
Into this picture perfect day

If I had spoken
Would it have changed it all for me?
Am I broken?
Am I far too gone
For any sane decree to mend?

It’s all fading away
Gaining in gray
A turbulent display
Nothing left to say
I cannot recall now
What it was that I had
But I feel like
I’ve been here before

Someone had told me there was more
I don’t believe them anymore

And then I wonder
Is there time left for me
Why bother
If there is nothing more to see
I can not believe that this is the end…
This can not be the end…
Everyone pretends…
Don’t let this end…

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from precious fallible gods, released June 6, 2013
music by MALACHI
lyrics and voice by GREGORY

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GREGORY Las Vegas, Nevada

1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam ... more

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Adam is simply and undeniably awesome, a true musical genius, creative colleague, and life-long friend… GREGORY
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