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When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.

With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.

The world is spinning, turning day to night, and my thoughts are running at the speed of light.

We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.

If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.

One day the blood won’t flow so gladly. One day we’ll all get still. Get still.

To start by making the trade center disappear, though, seems a good way to begin.

I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down.

And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same.

More than words is all you have to do to make it real.

Vows are spoken to be broken.

I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand.

I did not believe the information. I just had to trust imagination.

And I pray, oh my god do I pray! I pray every single day for revolution.

See a pearl form, a diamond in the rough. See a bird soaring high above the flood. It’s in your blood, it’s in your blood.

Looks like it’s time to decide, are you here, are you now, is this it?

Somebody I never met, but in a way I know. Didn’t think that you could get so much from a picture show.

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.

Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it.

Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.

They had to imagine the sun as something that does not move in relation to the earth and the earth even as something moving.

With only one or two human-made structures visible from Earth orbit, everything else that divides us – national borders, politics, languages, skin color, who you worship – is invisible to you.

Let’s all have a good time before the great divide. ‘Cause things will start separating come 2025.

There’s something magic in the air tonight, I can feel the Earth move.

Funny how your feet In dreams never touch the earth.

From the top of the world every which way is down.

You pull me close, and we start to move. And we’re spinnin’ with the stars above. And you lift me up in a wave of love.

(Gravity … is a very “occult” force, given that no one has ever seen it.)

Whatcha’ know about the ways of the underside?

Your world just spins whilst mine stands still. Nothing’s changed in your gravity grave.

Day after day, alone on a hill, the man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still.

No one ’round here’s good at keeping their eyes closed.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round. I just had to let it go.

Is the truth really there? Or is it right under our hair? For all we know it’s been there all the time.

I wander through fiction to look for the truth, buried beneath all the lies.

Circle in the sand, round and round, never ending love is what we’ve found.

Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot, this world keeps spinning.

You start to see the world a little differently when you turn it upside down.

Look at that low plane! Fine, then.

And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.

We’re seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain’t his.

… how various arguments fit together, how several measurements interlock with one another, and how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.

I hoped to find why the world wasn’t glowing It’s darker as we end this ride.

Here and now, under the banner of heaven we dream out loud, dream out loud.

Move me on to any black square, use me any time you want.

I’m standing here on the ground. The sky above won’t fall down.

I wage my war on the world inside. I take my gun to the enemy’s side.

If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling. Listen to reason, reason is calling.

Hidden hand, protect us from the dead and dying.

Nothin’ comes from talkers but sound. We can talk all we want to but the world still goes around and round.

We’re on a road to nowhere. Come on inside. Takin’ that ride to nowhere. We’ll take that ride.

I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they’re real.

Down from the clouds, words stumble ’round your head Just can’t believe in everything they’ve said.

And there’s someone in my head but it’s not me.

I want to break free from your lies.

Consider this. Consider this, the hint of the century.

And who knows which is which and who is who.

Something unseen. Some hand is motioning – to rise, to rise, to rise.

While everyone’s lost, the battle is won, with all these things that I’ve done.

All my instincts, they return, and the grand facade, so soon will burn.

This is so damn simple yeah. It’s so damn simple.

I’m on a river that winds on forever. Follow ’til I get where I’m goin’.

What we want and what we need has been confused, been confused.

Gravity’s just a habit that you’re pretty sure you can’t break.

Let it be known, there is a fountain, that was not made by the hands of men.

I want you to be free. Don’t worry about me. And just like the movies, we play out our last scene.