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Aaron Weiss
88 quotes
“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”
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“I was once the wine, and you the wineglass. I was once alive, when you held me. God became the glass: All things left were emptiness.”
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“I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.”
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“If you look out and see a trace Of dark red that used to be my face, In the clarity of His grace: Remember me.”
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“As we melt let's make no noise Oh, the profanation of our love To tell the world our passing joys!”
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“Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands I made her a widow, she made me a man.”
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“Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building... We'll be cut into shape and set into place. Or if you'd rather be a window, I'll gladly be the frame, Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame...”
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“Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?”
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“Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?”
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“I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.”
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Recorded in: January 1979.
“My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.”
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Recorded in: January 1979.
“Brother! I am far away from everything good.”
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“When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes, I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boot soles. Then I satisfied each need invented by my eyes, Till it was nothing like I'd imagined.”
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“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
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“He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet, Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes...”
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“And You dance inside my chest where no one sees You!”
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“Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul! I still have a thousand half-loves... oh, my God! I want to shoot myself just thinking about it! And you think I don't mean what I say?”
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“I threw the stones down at the reflection of my image in the water And it altogether disappeared. I burst as it shattered through me like a bullet through a bottle... And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real?”
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“God is Love and Love is real, yet the dead are dancing with the dead”
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“Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.”
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“So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence Because they only come out when it's quiet, Their tails brushing over your eyelids... Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!”
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“I was dead then alive, She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine; You can pour us out, we won't mind, As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine.”
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“Even the wind lay still, Our essence was fire and cold and movement, movement... Oh, if they ask you for the sign of the father in you, Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and... repose.”
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“I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst, Talking all about the second and third When I haven't understood the first.”
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“What unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind but never let them in our minds?”
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“Ya sabur, subhannallahi, a'udhu billahi minash-shaitanir-rajim, al-hamdu lilllah, bismillahir rahmanir rahim.”
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“Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground, And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah, But aimlessly drifting around.”
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“Oh, doubters, let's go down...”
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“You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?”
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“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
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“On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?" As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?" And I kissed the filthy ground... the first dry spot I found... I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.”
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“But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.”
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“And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see, Like a thick fog... If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.”
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“Down by the tracks watching trains go by To remind me: there are places that aren't here.”
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“Grape on the vine... why not be crushed to make wine?”
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“The Son of the widow You raised from the dead... Where did His soul go When He died again?”
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“Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives, And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters, I'd set my course for land, but you well understand It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters.”
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“I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back.”
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“I do not exist, we faithfully insist, While watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew. If ever You come near I'll hold up high a mirror Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You.”
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“Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam!”
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“When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!”
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“A fish swims through the sea While the sea is in a certain sense, Contained within the fish! Oh, what am I to think Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes Could not explain If all the forest trees were pens And all the oceans - ink?”
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“...as I go showing off again Self-impressed by how well I can put myself down! And there I go again To the next further removed level Of that same exact feigned humility!”
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“Shadow am I! Like a suspicion that's never confirmed But it's never denied! Wolf am I...”
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“One day the water's gonna wash it away One day the water's gonna wash it away One day the water's gonna wash it away And on that day, nothing clever to say.”
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“You made this world to look so nice I wonder what the next one's like?”
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“What new mystery is this?”
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“The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist: Before my doubting eyes, The infinite appears this time, The unquestionable is questioned But makes no reply!”
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“There, strapped like a watch on my wrist That's finished with gold but can't tell time, Was all of what little pleasure exists Seductively sold and uselessly mine.”
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“And all of what little joy in the world Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.”
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