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Our Lady, The Buddha

from A Candle For Durruti by Al Grierson

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OUR LADY, THE BUDDHA

Though the Valley of the Shadow may be bleak and hard to view
It’s the Alleys of the Living I have trouble walking through
At times I lose the fire, I can barely find a spark
Though I dream of you as angels dream of honey in the dark
And there you are – shining through the madness
Like a star cooling every bruise
And every star
Hanging like your mother’s only pearl
Pouring out your mercy on the world

I see hours when I wonder if you see me on my knees
When your favours fall on others and you leave me here to freeze
While I hunger like a bridegroom for the body of the bride
Never filled but not forsaken, all alone and mystified
And there you are – shining through the madness
Like a star cooling every bruise
And every star
Hanging like your mother’s only pearl
Pouring out your mercy on the world

And like a rebel in the outland when the revolution fails
Like a ship out on the ocean with no shiver in the sails
Like the ailing eyes of Noah looking seaward to the dove
Like an answer in the silence I will rise again to love
And there you are – shining through the madness
Like a star cooling every bruise
And every star
Hanging like your mother’s only pearl
Pouring out your mercy on the world

And when the world resigns and withers
and the time has come to go
With an invitation written like a fire in the snow
As the hours of my exile dance away into the past
With my cares among the lilies
I’ll be going home at last
And there you are – shining through the madness
Like a star cooling every bruise
And every star
Hanging like your mother’s only pearl
Pouring out your mercy on the world

And like a rebel in the outland when the revolution fails
Like a ship out on the ocean with no shiver in the sails
Like the ailing eyes of Noah looking seaward to the dove
Like an answer in the silence I will rise again to love
And there you are – shining through the madness
Like a star cooling every bruise
And every star
Hanging like your mother’s only pearl
Pouring out your mercy on the world

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from A Candle For Durruti, released January 1, 1999

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