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Soul Machine

from One Precious Life by Featherburn

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The soul machine it turns and churns with splendor
It sends us falling into flesh so tender
We’re carbon marvels weaving prayers into the air we breathe
the fortune sick fugitive hunger strike refugees
Arm and arm gifted heaven-sent hardware we
feel the ruts and rises thrilled to build and fill and carry
(we) sing the words carved deep within the funeral pyre
The only eyes and ears for miles

The soul machine rumbling gorgeous on the world we ride
The breath kite bright light whole heart hard wired
We’re ghosts chosen for the post of a lifetime
We can bring the ocean home, we paddle in and kill the fire
Eternity she waits at ease, she found another finish line
The sleepless leaves they wake the trees and (with) gravity to feed the (pyre) fire
Raising hope for the spirits here and everywhere
The only eyes and ears who care

She said this one it would be rough. (got a vision for the rocks on the other side of)
Five hundred billion blinks and up. (back into the river one and only you and I we)
There must be someone here we trust (breathing rough we’re the underwater kids divided)
We made our love into this rust (we are the sons daughters souls tied turn bright)

Everybody’s looking to be happy, this might sound crazy but it’s true.

It’s why we make a big fuss, why we stand in line,
It’s why we’re wakin’ up early, why we’re saving our dimes,
Why we buy stuff, take stuff, make stuff, break stuff,
Change it all around and somehow put it all back together again.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down
and we think of something new to try to help us feel proud
and the air is so sweet and the music in the sounds,
but we’re racing ‘round the track for the first place cloud
and the secret sits quiet while we’re growin’ and we’re dyin’
the message hidden in every breath, in every birth and every death
we get it, but then forget it

We can win or we can fail, we can try or we can bail
We can sing a song of hope, we can cry or we can sail
We can hold it or release. We can fight or keep the peace.
We can start a revolution, ride a bike to stop pollution.
We can move to the beat, we can march into the street
We can wrestle with the fear, we can love the one’s we’re near,
We can burn inside, or we can let it slide

One precious life
doesn’t everything die too soon
Wild precious life
what do you plan to do with your
one wild precious life?
She said this one, it would be rough

credits

from One Precious Life, released October 12, 2018
John “Milo” Milosich – lead vocals, accordion
Tim Jenkins – percussion, vocals
Jim Munster – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Tom Doorly – bass, vocals
Produced by Tim Jenkins

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Featherburn Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Featherburn plays accordion-powered romp-rock for adventurers. Volcanic, quirky and theatrical, the band weaves folk, punk, and eastern Europe with groove, grit, rhapsody, stereophonic harmony and shouts of moxy into a deep, playful wake-up call to marvel and wonder. ... more

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