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Away With Words

from Non Sequitur by Raiju

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About this song:

When we are young, everyone chomps at the bit to teach us what they know. Our parents and teachers badger us to death to learn words and ideas so important for them to pass on. But these ideas work like viruses – they work for themselves and their own livelihood and reproduction, not ours. The idea is always clamoring to "get out", to be spoken or written so it can make another copy of itself - so it can reproduce. Just as some strains of virus can be beneficial to us and others can be so damaging, ideas can work to improve or destroy us. But the virus doesn't care about its host's well-being; we become only a breeding-ground. To be too attached to our ideas works against us in the long run. To clear the mind of these visitors shows us more of what "we" are – we are not our ideas. We are not what we have learned. "We" are something else, something that by its very nature defies description. But a clear, unattached mind sees a profound and beautiful truth that is lost on those who are too obsessed with definition, too greedy to say "I know" when the case may be that we can never know. It is up to us if we despair of this notion, or if we can embrace and make peace with it.

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I have never had my way
away with words.
Now I remember days where I just felt insane
and loved the pain

You’re wasting eternity.
Believing the worst in me.
While the march of the days takes you farther away.
Listen to me.

Light floods, see again the sun...
Light floods, bitterness undone.

Grand designs release me from the mire.
Let forgiveness guide us to the shore.

Away with words.
.What we define loses its worth.
Away with words.
Old thoughts confine us.
Away with words.
Death of desire is rebirth.
Away with words.
Make peace with her.

The balance can end the tragedy.
The poison will pass without harm (You'll see)

Grow fallow fields once more.
Grow fallow fields once more.

Let the march of days take you far away.
And the balance restore your harmony.
An eternity spent in tragedy.
Let the balance restore this memory.

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from Non Sequitur, track released March 19, 2019
Written by Raiju
Vocals: Scott Wagner
Guitar: Bobby Carroll
Guitar/Vocals: Sean Johnson
Bass: Max Coley
Drums : Vinnie Hecht
From the 2019 Release: "Non Sequitur"
Audio Production: Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios

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Raiju San Francisco, California

Vocals: Scott Wagner

Guitar: Bobby Carroll

Bass: Max Coley

Drums: Vinnie Hecht

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