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Beautiful Day

from Desire and Despair by Maceman

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IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY SO I DECIDED TO WALK

WITH NO DIRECTION IN MIND I HEADED SOUTH ON THE BLOCK

SAW THE POOR WITH THEIR HANDS OUT COLLECTING NOTHING BUT DUST

THE LOCOMOTION COMMOTION AND THE SCREECH OF A BUS

I REMEMBERED ALL THE PLACES I WOULD FREQUENTLY PASS

NOT TWO YEARS AGO BOARDS WHERE THERE WAS GLASS

NO MORE RECORD STORES, HEADSHOPS, CLOTHING OR SHOES

JUST A MASS OF WANDERING SOULS WITH NOTHING TO DO….

NO LIGHTS AROUND US ONLY BLACKNESS AND GREY

BUT WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

AND ALL THE FOGS HAVE MEDDLED AND SETTLED BUT HEY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL…

DAYLIGHT BREAKS INTO MY WINDOW AT DAWN

SO I GOT UP AND I TREMBLED LIKE FIRST STEPS OF A FAWN

THE AIR AROUND WAS THICKER WITH THE SHOUTS OF DEBATE

'CAUSE THE STREETS WERE ALL FILLED UP WITH VIOLENCE AND HATE

SO I LIT MY CANDLE IN A FLASH I WAS GONE

NO MORE NOISE POLLUTION RAINING THICK ON MY LAWN

I FINALLY REACHED THE PREACHED THE END OF MY GOAL

AND WITH OPEN ARMS I WAS SWALLOWED UP WHOLE…

NO LIGHTS AROUND US ONLY BLACKNESS AND GREY

BUT WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

AND ALL THE FOGS HAVE MEDDLED AND SETTLED BUT HEY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY


NO LIGHTS AROUND US ONLY BLACKNESS AND GREY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

AND ALL THE FOGS HAVE MEDDLED AND SETTLED BUT HEY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL….. DAY


YOU CAN RUN RIGHT THROUGH YOU CAN WAIT & MEDITATE

BUT NEVER CAN YOU PRETEND… (NEVER CAN YOU PRETEND)

YOU CAN HOP RIGHT BY YOU CAN EVEN TRY TO HIDE

BUT THE PROBLEM'S STILL THERE IN THE END

YOU CAN RUN RIGHT THROUGH YOU CAN WAIT & MEDITATE

BUT NEVER CAN YOU PRETEND… (NEVER CAN YOU PRETEND)

YOU CAN HOP RIGHT BY YOU CAN EVEN TRY TO HIDE

BUT THE PROBLEM… IS STILL THERE… IN THE END


NO LIGHTS AROUND US ONLY BLACKNESS AND GREY

BUT WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

AND ALL THE FOGS HAVE MEDDLED AND SETTLED BUT HEY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

NO LIGHTS AROUND US ONLY BLACKNESS AND GREY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY

AND ALL THE FOGS HAVE MEDDLED AND SETTLED BUT HEY

WHEN I LEFT THIS MORNING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY…

A BEAUTIFUL DAY…

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY…

A BEAUTIFUL DAY…

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from Desire and Despair, released August 21, 2008

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