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(They Had) Beards

from The Way The Trees Are by Big City

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They had beards
so we grew beards
And then you grew a beard too
So we all had beards
when the rest grew beards

There was lavish praise,
wishful thinking
A heartfelt photographing of common dreams
We followed you into a sugarcube in the sun

Once up there
young pages glared
Nothing shone but it was great
The castle spun
The walls, undone

There was devotion,
swoons, emotions
All too lovely squalid for words

And when eagles dared
to flog our eyes,
we took our hands
and held them tight
Hoping we still could make it through the night

Well, everything should forever last
But all the while with a smile, with our beards,
our questions
took us to a new church

We stormed into the main hall,
where mouths were filled
with sudden stars
There stood the knife
we were divided by:
Another king with a very active sleep life

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from The Way The Trees Are, released May 6, 2013

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