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Forever In A Moment

by Ben Antoniadis

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1.
Forever In A Moment 04:18
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An ancient defect in the addled brain God’s creation, perfect all the same There is no tomorrow if there is no today And there is no relief if there is no pain And a bird cannot fly with only one wing And if there were no silence, the bird could not sing And where there is no beginning, there is no end But if one were not born, one could not be born again All’s well that ends well Up on the shelf, invisible bookends Falling into heaven, into hell Falling off the shelf Forever in a moment A beautiful lament An ancient scar on the laughing heart Timeless healing of that torn apart Blind, deaf and dumb but felt somehow Forever in a moment, the endless echo of now All’s well that ends well Up on the shelf, invisible bookends Falling into heaven, into hell Falling off the shelf Forever in a moment A beautiful lament All’s well that ends well Up on the shelf, invisible bookends Falling into heaven, into hell Falling off the shelf Forever in a moment A beautiful lament
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Good Friday Blues 03:30
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In the city each night Secrets scrawled on the pavement In black and white Holy words in white chalk No useless mind, no useless talk The restless in the valley The homeless in the alley Their heads on a plate At tea party For talking heads in house of state And someone said something matters While everything matters and nothing does But it’s true the mind will shatter When the weight of lies, the weight of lies becomes too much Now rugged doves Whisper words of faith Crawling through cityscape A holy crusade for a simple crumb And the blessing of God’s grace And it’s Easter in the city And many places else No Good Friday blues For you and me To the beat of Jesus’ pulse And we all will rise and rise again As the sun crawls across the sky Until the Son, until the Son will come again And we all will rise and rise again As the sun crawls across the sky Until the Son, until the Son will come again
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When I Was Five 03:14
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I remember when I was five It’s like remembering a dream There’s some sense of knowing But also of knowing some things aren’t as they seem I remember the day Lennon died We sat in the car, my father and I Just the newspaper and the radio He stared out the window, I thought he might cry I remember down Scotchman’s Creek Dressed up like Ned Kelly when we were kids Empty plant pots on our heads Sheet metal armour to defend against the police Now forty years on, our father has gone And the innocent still dying While you and me still fighting against tyranny I remember a time, under Armageddon sky But just enough light To awaken the spirit in the boy who thought he could fly I remember a time, under Armageddon sky But just enough light To awaken the spirit in the boy who thought he could fly
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An Open Cage 03:24
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All the paths I’ve taken have finally led me here Sometimes I was misguided, sometimes the way was clear Though I’ve often felt forsaken by the light I couldn’t see But now all my hopes and dreams are flooding back to me How far can you fall when you think you know it all? How low will you go before you finally heed the call? Who’s gonna come and save you when you lay your soul to waste? I know now I had to lose myself to finally find my way But the story isn’t over, you gotta fight until you drop The world gonna keep on turning and for no man will it stop So you just keep on, live each moment Remember to breathe Someday the cage will open You gotta fly to be free
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Rollin’ 04:05
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Rolling and rolling and rolling away Every hour and every day Rolling and rolling and rolling at sea Over the ocean back to thee Rolling and rolling and rolling in time Back to the place you left behind Rolling and rolling and rolling to thee Where your love waits for me Canaries in the coal mine Flying around in your mind Singing sweet tunes of sweetless doom But someday everything gonna be alright Falling into the mirror face Barely breaking the surface Into a world beyond this place Where the angels wait for thee Turning away from thoughts that deceive Tempted by fruit from the tree Sometimes you end up losing your way Sometimes you get led astray And sometimes you get what you’re asking for When you’re tempting fate And sometimes there ain’t no other way But to fall down on your knees and pray Rolling and rolling and rolling away Every hour and every day Rolling and rolling and rolling at sea Over the ocean back to thee Rolling and rolling and rolling away Every hour and every day Rolling and rolling and rolling at sea Over the ocean back to thee
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Freedom 03:13
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Too woke to be awake Too liberal to be free Too zealous for consensus Too correct, politically Too lavish your tenure In ivory tower where you posture How wonderful your life More equal than others Hey, hey, lady, have another Chardonnay Too gluttonous the greed Too greedy to be free Too big to fail Too greedy to succeed Pulling trillions outta thin air Like casino in Sin City Bankers stack the cards And the house goes on winning Hey, hey, gentlemen, kick a beggar today Too New Age for wisdom Too glorified for the Kingdom Too quick to say you’re right Too slow to admit you’re wrong But pride goes before a fall Don’t I know it all And when you get so high Is it elevation or the Fall? Hey, hey, Adam, you’re a free man today Condemned to be free, like the old man say
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Blood In The Machine 05:30
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In the mad city streets, a madman's scream Bloodshot eyes, a chemical dream Accusing the silence of murderous violence Laughing in the face of his own madness The town hall bell rings in your tired ear It's the sound of doom from yesteryear Tolling for the blind who walk the street Under subtle tyranny that they cannot see Eyes in your bedroom, eyes in the sky On every street corner like thieves in the night Radiation waves goodbye to yesterday Chaos and disorder where the devil plays The powers rejoice, the media applaud The next world war, the war on us all And it'll all be on camera, it'll all be televised And we'll all be big stars in our own demise As reality explodes into a billion bytes And we all go viral in our own minds A psychopath's fantasy, so cruel and obscene Where war is unending against the enemy Though grace in the silence, truth in the unseen Though love in man, blood in the machine But it's just another night, baby, chasing the light Waiting on a sign from the other side As the madman drifting across forgotten ocean Sailing to the moon, into beautiful oblivion
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Love Is Truth 03:37
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Love is truth, truth is love Love is you as you are love Hear the sound of the mourning dove See broken wing catch the light from above Love is truth, truth is love Stars light the way in the sky above For every lost sailor, wherever they may roam A distant light guiding them home Guiding them home Love is truth, truth is love An enemy forgiven, a brother beloved The battle cry of the fallen soldier Forgotten in the night when the war is over Love is truth, truth is love A lighthouse on the shoreline above For every lost sailor, wherever they may roam A welcome light guiding them home Guiding them home Guiding them home Guiding them home Love is truth, truth is love Love is you as you are love Hear the sound of the broken heart See the crack catch the light in the dark Love is truth, truth is love A harbour of light in the dark night of the soul For every lost sailor, wherever they may roam The inner light guiding them home Guiding them home Guiding them home Guiding them home
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Who’s To Say? 03:30
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Tell me, old man, what do you see? With your eyes, dead as the ocean deep Is the darkness in me, the darkness in you? Do I drown in the depths of your darkest truth? I see, young woman, your eyes do not lie As they shine like stars on a starlit night Is the light in me, the light in you? Do I shine in the light of your luminous truth? Lover, I see through the window to your soul I see my reflection in that same window Where you are my friend, and I, my worst enemy Who's to say, the space between you and me? Tell me, wise man, can I start again? Do I walk a crooked path, a road with no end? He said, "Carry your weight and walk in the light For the end is the beginning and beginning, endless night" Lover, I see through the window to your soul I see my reflection in that same window Where you are my friend, and I, my worst enemy Who's to say, the space between you and me? Lover, I see through the window to your soul I see my reflection in that same window Where you are my friend, and I, my worst enemy Who's to say, the space between you and me?
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Awakening 03:10
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Stars align in foreign skies Tears fall from my baby’s eyes A world gone wrong, outta its mind What’s that you got, baby, behind your eyes? Jupiter and Saturn merge Come together with cosmic urge A world divided, torn apart What’s that you got, baby, inside your heart? It’s a nightmare, I know, of their own making But the sleeping giant, slowly awakening The voice of the innocent sounds Silent oppressed on the ground Rulers’ draconian will Rebels rise in a battle of wills It’s a nightmare, I know, of their own making But the sleeping giant, slowly awakening The silence sends a message to me To stand for truth and liberty To pray for strength to carry on To fight to sing a new song It’s a nightmare, I know, of their own making But the sleeping giant, slowly awakening It’s a nightmare, I know, of their own making But the sleeping giant, slowly awakening

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released October 28, 2022

Ben Antoniadis - vocals, guitar, programming

All songs written by Ben Antoniadis

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