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cutting off roots

from Be Still by Settle Down

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lyrics

There aren't enough creatures in my soil.
I could keep plowing the fields, but I'm running thick in native's bones, blood and spinal coil.
I'm told to pile the dirt high so the children won't notice, but who cares when even the wise have doom and lies breaking down their door and just keep throwing back lotus?

It's time to cut off these roots so we can grow.
Tear away at the skin so all of our light can show.

Tell them they're the children of God.
And they will lend an open ear. Then plant them in a field of fear and keep mowing the souls like sod.
If we are God's kids
Well then we had better glow in the dark. Because the road less traveled is losing light, and it's the one we must embark.

For so long we've been following something.
So maybe this time follow nothing.
Eyes wide and straight into the night,
Because something rarely turns out right.

Cutting off roots so we can grow.
Tearing away at the skin so that our light can show.
We've been given seeds of death to sow.
Given a bullet, but we'll walk away with our heads in tow.

I say it's time we start receiving; take a breath, let all this go.
All these things and this believing...
Let's cut our roots so we can grow.

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from Be Still, released April 2, 2013
lyrics by Alex Johnson

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