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The Flight

from Hope to Leave No Harm by Sister Helen

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Won't you take me away
from this terrible place?
I don't know what to say
as long as we're here.
Everyone who remains
voices rattle my chains
and their picking my brains
is all that I fear.
Well that's as may be, but
you're gonna have to pay the price if you wanna be free
(for everyone that comes to me
you know it don't come easily)
And I want to be perfectly sure that you're
everything that I've been looking for
(What kind of secrets can I share
if I can't take you anywhere?)
Hey, kid, wait, I think you're charming, too;
you're innocent, you think you've got harm in you.
You wanna fly? Start jumping.
You wanna fly? Get jumping!
And if you let go now
the air may not hold you
why should it when you're so
indifferent to this truth
And if you are so sure
we cannot make you stay
then where else would you go?
There's no place called away.
Bid me safe return to sender,
let me soar and not surrender.
Won't you take me away
from this terrible place?
I don't know what to say
as long as we're here.
Everyone who remains
voices rattle my chains
and their picking my brains
is all that I fear.
Kid, the only angel Heaven ever sends
is the one who brings each moment to an end
(And so I come on silent wings,
deliver souls from tyrant things)
No wonder they call us as light as a feather!
You've got to be earthbound to return to forever.
(The only state that you'd call grace
is in the solitude of space).
Go on! If you can't fly---move!
You're lazy for someone with so much to prove!
You wanna fly? Get jumping.
Too tough to try? Ain't that something!
And if you let go now
the air may swallow you
what's stopping it now you're
submissive to this truth
The sky's a jealous hand
that circles you around
there's only its command
there is no up and down
Feel so high since I surrendered
am I flying or just suspended?
Feel so high since I surrendered
am I flying or just suspended?
Won't you take me away? I'm ready
Won't you take me away? I'm ready
Won't you take me away? I'm ready,
I'm ready to learn how to fly.

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from Hope to Leave No Harm, released October 28, 2012

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Nathan J. Campbell- Vocals

Chris Krasnow- Guitar/Vocals

Eva Lawitts- Bass/Vocals

Clint Mobley- Drums
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