Free At Last (So Much Time)

from Sons II : At the Edge of Time by Soul Saint Marie

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Time out of mind.
Lately I find myself growing old.
Another endless summer, gone cold.

I've stopped trying to fight momentum,
I just close my eyes,
Land where I'm rolled.

I've got time, so much time.

Sons rise up quick
And each young prince will be
King for a day.

But then comes the Great Sunset,
When emporer and empire together all just
Fade away.

Even the Sunset is nervous,
Knows that not even He
Will always remain.

I've got time, so much time.
I've got so much time on my hands.

Free at last, free at last.
Thank the Lord, I'm free at last.
Got myself free from a name, free from an age,
Free from a future, got myself freed from a past.

(How long does nirvana last?)

Yesterday, I knew you,
Knew you were nothing more than a half-handed dream.
Tomorrow, you were never there, you were never there at all, you were nothing but a mad man's scheme.

(For the circle can only repeat.)

I've got time, so much time.
I've got all the time in the world.

Lifetimes, lifetimes pass me by, let them pass me by.
I'm not worried, let them pass me by, let them pass me by.

An angelic flash of light exposes the corners of my mind to me,
As the sound of a thousand epiphanies cascades across geopgraphy.
Then a resounding silence as clenched eyelids finally relent,
They acknowledge the dawn, and the alignment of divine intent.
The moment is reversed again, and, unable to break the chain,
The Sun surrenders His position as the dead-center of Everything.
As the body, the soul, and the question go numb,
I can feel myself becoming that which was never begun.
And I stand in the Light of the Shade of the Sun,
As all things once separate fade into The One.

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from Sons II : At the Edge of Time, released September 22, 2009

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