{words as listed in liner notes}
[words as actually recorded]
I'm a little world / I'm a little world / I'm a little world / I'm a little world [1]
Knock, breathe, shine [2]
and seek to know me now
(Burn me down with your fire pour new oceans in my eyes) [3]
Break, burn, heal and make me new again [4]
(Drown my world with my weeping or wash me if I drown no more) [5]
[1][3] [5] From John Donne's "Holy Sonnet V":
[2][4] From John Donne's "Holy Sonnet XIV":
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements and an angelic sprite,
But black sin hath betray'd to endless night
My world's both parts, and oh both parts must die.
You which beyond that heaven which was most high
Have found new spheres, and of new lands can write,
Pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might
Drown my world with my weeping earnestly,
Or wash it, if it must be drown'd no more.
But oh it must be burnt; alas the fire
Of lust and envy have burnt it heretofore,
And made it fouler; let their flames retire,
And burn me O Lord, with a fiery zeal
Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal.
Batter my heart, three personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurpt town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
I will paint you in a corner
In a room where the light is on
You will see love stands to reason
You can feel it inside
I think you've known it all along
When I touch you with Occam's razor
I will cut you between truth and lie
And I will get through with Occam's razor
Cut your soul from the heart of darkness [1]
Now keep your eyes wide open
When reason kills the lie
I've answered all your questions
Dont' you cry sweet baby
Everbody's gotta die
It's gonna hurt bad for a while
[1]"Heart of Darkness" is the title of a novel by Joseph Conrad.
I'll toast and drink
While staggering toward the
Holy hidden heart of it [1]
You'll swim and sink
Drowning just to see a
Little part of it
It will have to do for now
It will do for now
Will have to do for now
I'll live and learn
That the rain against the window's
Saying life is grace [2]
At your every turn
Reveals a mystery [3] hiding in
{That}[the] common place
It will have to do for now
It will do for now
Will have to do for now
The Artful Dodger
Down on Avirice street
He's inclined to repent
But the sin's too sweet
Now he's imagining heaven
Thru the multi-colored glass
The icon pages, the blood and ashes
[It will do for now]
Will have to do for now
It will have to do for now
Have to do for now, etc
[1][2][3] From Frederick Buechner's "Now & Then":
[2] Also from Frederick Buechner's "The Alphabet of Grace":
"Oh, but my dear dead dear, what better place? Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean..." (p. 25)
"If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence
of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist
and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to
your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement
and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and
hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments
are key moments, and life itself is grace."