Built Then Burnt (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
A Silver Mt. Zion

Dear brothers and sisters

Dear enemies and friends

Why are we all so alone here?

All we need is a little more hope

A little more joy

All we need is a little more light

A little less weight

A little more freedom


If we were an army

And if we believed that we were an army

And we believed that everyone was scared

Like little lost children in their grown-up clothes and poses

So we ended up alone here

Floating through long wasted days

Or great tribulations

While everything felt wrong


Good words, strong words

Words that could've moved mountains!

Words that no one ever said

We were all waiting to hear those words

And no one ever said them

And the tactics never hatched

And the plans were never mapped

And we all learned not to believe


And strange lonesome monsters loped through the hills

Wondering why

Though it is best to never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever wonder why


So tangle

O tangle us up in bright red ribbons!

Let's have a parade

It's been so long since we had a parade

So let's have a parade!

Let's invite all our friends

And all our friends' friends!

Let's promenade down the boulevards with terrific pride and light in our eyes

Twelve feet tall and staggering

Sick with joy with the angels there and light in our eyes


Brothers and sisters

Hope still waits in the wings

Like a bitter spinster

Impatient, lonely, and shivering

Waiting to build her glorious fires


It's because of our plans, man

Our beautiful ridiculous plans

Let's launch them like careening jetplanes

Let's crash all our planes into the river

Let's build strange and radiant machines

At this jericho waiting to fall


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  1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound   1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound   13 Blues For Thirteen Moons   13 Blues for Thirteen Moons   American Motor Over Smoldered Field   American Motor Over Smoldered Field   Babylon Was Built On Fire / Starsnostars   Babylon Was Built on Fire/Starsnostars   Babylon Was Built On Fire/starsnostars   Black Waters Blowed/Engine Broke Blues   Black Waters Blowed/Engine Broke Blues   BlindBlindBlind   Blindblindblind   Blown Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole   C'mon Come On (Loose an Endless Longing)   Collapse Tradicional (For Darling)   Collapse Traditional (For Darling)   Could've Moved Mountains   For Wanda   God Bless Our Dead Marines   Goodbye Desolate Railyard   Hang On To Each Other   Horses In The Sky   Horses in the Sky   I Built Myself a Metal Bird   I Built Myself A Metal Bird   I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds   Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)   Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)   Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)   Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)   Long March Rocket or Doomed Airliner   Microphones In The Trees   Microphones in the Trees   More Action! Less Tears!   Mountains Made Of Steam   Mountains Made of Steam   Movie (Never Made)   Piphany Rambler   Pretty Little Lightning Paw   Pretty Little Lightning Paw   Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone)   Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come And Gone)   Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs   Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs   Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom   Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning   Take These Hands And Throw Them In The River   Teddy Roosevelt's Guns   The State Itself Did Not Agree   The Triumph Of Our Tired Eyes   There Is A Light   There is a Light   There's A River In The Valley Made Of Melting Snow   What We Loved Was Not Enough

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