Dead Man Walking
from Being Here by Miriam Jones
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lyrics
Autumn loves what it does - sober light on summer lust
Flowers fade, leaves are laid - we cannot stand forever
Winter gives definitive death to life that should not live
Ever we set our plea against the turning time
No baser stuff than makes us up could anywhere be found
And true it is that such as this belongs back in the ground
And I am a dead man walking in a waning land
Awake me, remake me Yahweh
This earth tomb - a birth womb - tired life of spent cocoon
Release me, repiece me, I wait to see this dead man walking, walking away
Every day ten new ways to stay a few more sorry days
What we implore to linger for I cannot hope to tell
All we’ve sought to fill our loss, see him hanging on a cross to bid me make my great escape
to the word that stands forever
Set me free, bury me
The life he bleeds the remedy
Flowers fade, leaves are laid - we cannot stand forever
Winter gives definitive death to life that should not live
Ever we set our plea against the turning time
No baser stuff than makes us up could anywhere be found
And true it is that such as this belongs back in the ground
And I am a dead man walking in a waning land
Awake me, remake me Yahweh
This earth tomb - a birth womb - tired life of spent cocoon
Release me, repiece me, I wait to see this dead man walking, walking away
Every day ten new ways to stay a few more sorry days
What we implore to linger for I cannot hope to tell
All we’ve sought to fill our loss, see him hanging on a cross to bid me make my great escape
to the word that stands forever
Set me free, bury me
The life he bleeds the remedy
credits
from Being Here,
released February 1, 2007
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Miriam Jones Victoria, British Columbia
Management: miriamjones.tumblr.com/contact
"Quite apart from that this album is extraordinary on its
own merits there are few artists willing to expose their talents to such a sparse instrumental background, and you need to listen to it and discover its beauty for yourself."
- Tim Martin, FATEA Magazine
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