This song I have already sung
I sang it before I was young
I sang it before my great grandparents’ birth
Before there was music or people on earth
Before the Jurassic, before the Big Bang
This song I sang.
MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM
Each rhyme I have already rhymed
They unfold in physics and time
Each thought I have thought and each deed I have done
Each loss I have lost and each win I have won
I know I am just an automaton
So why go on?
MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM
I’ve learned to ignore the whole thing
I roll up my sleeves and I sing
I work and I work and I work until when
I feel that my life has a purpose and then
I sing it and sing it again and again
This life I have already won
This song I have already sung
MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM MOO-A-OOM
credits
from Slivers of Light,
released January 1, 2014
Adam Kee, voice / Stephanie Weaver, voice / Secretary Michael, keyboard
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