Lyric For The Day 4.7.11 from Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes

 

I was raised up believin'
I was somehow unique
like a snowflake, distinct among snowflakes
unique in each way you can see.

And now after some thinkin'
I'd say I'd rather be
a functioning cog in some great machinery
servin' some thing beyond me

But I don't, I don't know what that will be.
I'll get back to you someday,
soon you will see.

-      From Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes

What precise, profound and prophetic commentary on the modern ills of no cause and nothing to believe in... but the hope that there might be something... somewhere...  

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[The Slicer]

"I'd rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery servin' some thing beyond me." Sounds like what the Church is supposed to be like to me... a great, organic, body engaged in service. All it needs is a head...