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Be Enough
04:57
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There’s a man inside the house
And he’s yelling with his thumbs
Thrust on a pedestal of income
Hijacking faith as his disciples strum
There’s a man inside God’s house
And he’s teaching people how to hate
Not to share the food on our plate
That a squiggly line is somehow straight
But the walls are broken
And the curtain’s torn open
Shouldn’t that be enough?
I just got to ask
Where is Christ in the flag?
Writing white history on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on and on
So we come to a corner with a window that’s been smashed
They taught me to care less for people than broken glass
I was taught to care more for a building than burning ash
To care more for me than a lash
Shouldn’t that be enough?
Shattering borders with love
Letting peace come from your jaw
Not defending confederate laws
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Not You
04:25
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Rust and decay
LED Display
Silver now red
Joints and marrow unfed
You try to stand but then you fall
Metal slammed against the wall
Your heart and mind have been removed
Circuitry with flesh now fused
That’s not you
Not who I knew
Not what you’d imbue
Not what you taught me to do
Cultic machine
Brainwashed beings
Control+Alt+Delete
You’re losing the human link
Stacking bodies on the lawn
Justifying one by one
Light the pile with a torch
Sit back and laugh on the porch
That’s not you
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Ghost in My House
02:58
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Floorboards creak when I try to sleep
When my room is dark I can see his teeth
When the traffic dies I swear that I
Can hear it breathe
Cause there's a ghost living in my house
He is angry and he is proud
Until now I thought it was something
That I don't believe in
300 years and he's still here
Changing how he appears
Hungry to feast on these fears
And all this bad cheer
Hiding in the wall
Infected and tall
Tripping me so that I fall
Yelling at me that I need to read Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul
Cause there's a ghost living in my house
He is angry and he is proud
Until now I thought it was something
That I don't believe in
Haven't lost my dreams even though I don't sleep
I'm the luckiest of sheep
At the end of the day
It's just another creep
It's just another creep
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Stolen
04:05
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We stole
Everything we own
And we want to steal
Everything we don’t
I’ve locked up the keep
And now I’m drunk on sleep
This pyramid scheme
We call the American dream
Sins of the fathers
Hungry for slaughter
Are you dreaming well?
Is it a comfortable cell?
Chains on feet
Scrounging to eat
Fighting for air
While no one knows you’re there
But I need a house
With five bedrooms at least
Money’s my spouse
Your problems are my feast
Maybe I could learn
And maybe we could yearn
For something more
Than a lovely urn
And maybe we could see
More possibilities
Where people actually live free
And maybe I could see that
Jesus wasn’t white like me
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Tax Me
01:25
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Go to war
Just don’t tax me anymore
Change the score
Just don’t tax me anymore
Don’t tax me anymore
Beat them with a smile
Just don’t tax me anymore
Pray it’ll change after awhile
Just don’t tax me anymore
Starve the poor
Just don’t tax me anymore
Poison all the shores
Just don’t tax me anymore
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As the deer panteth for water
The echoing earth fades away
If the Lord made all the creatures
Should we not keep them all safe?
As my soul cries restoration
I hear of icebergs gone to sea
And I question man’s exploration
As I seek the old decree
Each little flower that blossoms
Each little bird that sings
Fostering all of Your oceans
Repairing broken wings
I wake up in the early morning
As the sun melts the moon
Fear consumes me like a serpent
My mind full of discordant tunes
Grief fills up my eyelids
As Your people don’t believe
Demonizing thought and reason
As these trees conceive dead leaves
He cares for each and every feather
He guides the buzzing bees
He tempers the weather
And smiles when the crickets sing
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Dark Waters
04:00
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Sounds of a lightbulb
Brightening the room
Sometimes what’s urgent
Comes much too soon
Socialize until it’s shameful
Now the pans don’t stick
And we’re supposed to be grateful
As this cancer makes us sick
It’s all they can do
Years of follow through
Our spines under their shoe
It’s all they can do
Burning the gardens
The gardeners keep them safe
Misreading Scripture
They’ve lost their mandate
I miss the trees
I wish that I could breathe
And I miss the leaves
Pure honey in my tea
We all know that we are falling
We all know we’re falling
We all know we’re falling
We all know that
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Words
02:46
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And I wonder what you are going to do
with all your millions
And I wonder what you are going to do
A little child dreaming
The sky is blue
Growing older now
Skyscrapers block his view
Hungering for power
And starving on the truth
Now the child only fits
Inside a suit
Tears fall
Kingdoms crumble
Beggars crawl
The righteous stumble
Power
Tower
Hold the stocks up
They cannot fall
Dead flower
Fields scoured
Hold the stocks up
Above it all
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you needed?
A safe full of money
A life now depleted
Your brain full of memories
Of counting your dollars
Your brain full of memories
Of killing God’s colors
No memories of lost love
Or friends by a fire
No memories of feeding
Artistic desire
No feet in a river
No prayers to deliver
An echoing mansion
And a heart with a sliver
And I wonder what you are going to do
With all your millions
And I wonder what you are going to do
With all your billions
And I wonder what you are going to do
With all your trillions
And I wonder what you are going to do
With all your zillions
And I wonder
O, I wonder
Still I wonder
I’ll always wonder
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10. |
A Beautiful Divorce
03:04
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Scores of years ago
The birth of a new lie
Lovely old glory
Made it through the night
Speaking in tongues
About this chosen continent
Then singing on Sundays
To bless the whole firmament
The groom in red, white, and blue
The bride kneeled at the cross
The knot comes undone
As it’s stretched across
The amber waves of grain
Drift softly in the wind
The herd of buffalo
Begins to thin again
This is a beautiful divorce
Time to find
A more perfect union
This is a beautiful divorce
No more country
Of Christ’s Kingdom
This is a beautiful divorce
No more flags
Where my Bible should be
No more pledging allegiance
To a land instead of the King
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Micah McCaw Medford, Oregon
McCaw's third album releases 11/4/2022. "A Beautiful Divorce" is about how the American Evangelical Church needs to divorce their patriotism from their faith and put love of people and the teachings of Christ above political parties.
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