Produced, Recorded, Engineered and Mixed by Brian "Puke" Parnell at Emesis Studios in Idyllwild, California. Mastered by Dave Klein. Album cover by Dave Krocker.
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lyrics
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow,
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness
Have lain too long
Facedown in ignorance,
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out to us today,
You may stand upon me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song.
Come, rest here by my side.
Each of you, a bordered country.
Delicate and strangely made.
Proud, Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon My shore,
currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more.
Come, Clad in peace,
and I will sing the songs The Creator gave to me
when I and the Tree and the Rock were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your Brow.
And when you yet knew, you still
Knew nothing.
The River sang and sings on.
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