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from Floating Feather by Fox and the Bird

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Sad to say, I see a lot of anger here
it makes compassion disappear
and helps me stay so far away
But hopefully we’re not the type of men as we
have seen in generations past,
the kind that live and die so fast

An ancient struggle has become the loneliest heartache
An ancient cycle is now our first and last mistake

For the oldest old of the newest born
couldn’t ever know how the earth was formed
from the saddest deaths bloody aftermath,
to the poorest peasant birth
to the men that fought and died to conquer earth

Fossilized, we strain to open up our eyes
and see the way things used to be
we dig too far in history
And there exposed, our heartless, faithless cousins go
to wash and wash repeatedly
but in their eyes ourselves we see

... and the way we laughed when the world collapsed
and we’re left with childbirth
and the song we sang, penned in father’s name
but we swore we wrote it first
to the men who fought and died to conquer earth

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from Floating Feather, released July 29, 2011
Song by Dan Bowman
Instrumentation by Fox and the Bird

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Fox and the Bird Dallas, Texas

Fox and the Bird is a folk-pop band hailing from Dallas, TX with gang vocals and layered harmonies. The band is a choral collective that's seen a rotating cast of 15 songwriters & members since they hit the scene in 2008. They continue to produce and self-release its albums, touring from time to time and always committed to music that is made on back porches, in living rooms and on the streets. ... more

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