THE TALISMAN
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Behold your masters, what they've made
Houses tall as ancient days
Darkness sparks and visions sway
Where the seedless sons of fortunes fade
And look how sense has cornered age
The future, past and present days
When nothing lasts, it all decays
When life and death are just the same
Bear with me now for what I say
Are only truths the lords obey
If wisdom and your will engage
They'd be as still as summer's gaze
And everyone must please a master
And they all must appease their gains
And everybody lulls in laughter
And everybody smiles the same
If the fire-breathing vagrant starves
With my faith within his arms
He'll burn a hole right through the past
Leave ash and footprints sharp as grass
And if death and dark unholy hope
Are left to live in only quotes
At least he tried, at least he spoke
A voice so deep he'd quake each note
And the rain comes as Charles Mingus moans
A lover sighs beside a phone
The ragged sky supplies the tone
While the sigil of sunrise postpones
As you get old, it gets faster
Take your lullabies away
Because everybody lulls in laughter
And everybody smiles the same
But the talisman is mercy
And I can't keep myself away
And though the sound of silence hurts me
Its virtues never stray
And this is just the meaning
Of what the talisman would say
She told my fortune, made me bread
Lights would dim then decent head
Now she's gone, may well be wed
But I wrote down every word she said
And the oceans reap what you bestow
Get high and get a little low
Just read the tides if you don't know
Your vision stretched to where they go
And as Joanna Newsom sings sublime
The stars run out of time
The broken hearts submit their cries
While the angels sing back Tupac lines
And that's before and after
On any given day
And everybody lulls in laughter
And everybody smiles the same
But the talisman is mercy
And I can't keep myself away
And though the sound of silence hurts me
Its virtues never stray
And this is just the meaning
Of what the talisman might say
So when the shadows say there'll be no dawn
You'll see they're misinformed
For the dark to live, light must be born
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
And if the rivers say that you can't cross
Show the waters what they've lost
Land and darkness melt the frost
Indulge a little, baby, have a little dream
When the savage soldiers raise their arms
And all this chaos turns to calm
Look to the roadmap on your palm
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
So when the shadows say there'll be no dawn
You'll see they're misinformed
For the dark to live, light must be born
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
And if the rivers say that you can't cross
Show the waters what they've lost
Land and darkness melt the frost
Indulge a little, baby, have a little dream
When the savage soldiers raise their arms
And all this chaos turns to calm
Look to the roadmap on your palm
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
So when the shadows say there'll be no dawn
You'll see they're misinformed
For the dark to live, light must be born
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
And if the rivers say that you can't cross
Show the waters what they've lost
Land and darkness melt the frost
Indulge a little, baby, have a little dream
When the savage soldiers raise their arms
And all this chaos turns to calm
Look to the roadmap on your palm
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
So when the shadows say there'll be no dawn
You'll see they're misinformed
For the dark to live, light must be born
Have a little patience, have a little sleep
And if the rivers say that you can't cross
Show the waters what they've lost
Land and darkness melt the frost
Indulge a little, baby, have a little dream