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A Light Will Be Thrown

by The John Whites

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1.
Liberty Bell 02:38
Reign sir Wrapped sir Hold my hat sir You stole My liberty bell Is gone And ringing for nowhere Aim sir Whole sir Hit my half sir You stole My liberty bell Is gone And ringing for nowhere Chained sir Chapped sir Chipped sir Cracked sir You stole My liberty bell Is gone And ringing for nowhere Saved sir Stand sir Faint sir Bagged sir You stole My liberty bell Is gone And ringing for nowhere
2.
Out on your own Your fingers crossed to the bone The light that you saw And thought would lead you back home Did not Now that you're gone You're staying right where you are You are A Ball full of Strangers Beautiful Strangers
3.
When I Pause 02:23
When I pause to walk across the road It's not coming, it's not coming When I pause and hit the floor I know It's not coming, it's not coming Until you go All my senses roll All my senses roll
4.
Death you keep me alive Starring at the back of my head Always there by my side Ever since I took my first breath Now there was a time In my youth When I would look at you And want to run away But not this year Not this time I stand before you unafraid And maybe not today And maybe not tomorrow But one day and one day soon A lights gonna be thrown On all of this From the gods in the heavens To the moles in the ground Death you keep me alive
5.
6.
Then you were gone Just like a thief in the night you were gone I tried too Letters I'd write in the furnace once again Now I'm carving out holes in the walls The smell of smoldering smoke fills the halls I'm screaming everyone's name as the place flames towards the floor I'm here to help you You're mine to rescue Hold you, have you You're mine to rescue Mine Then you were gone Just like a thief in the night you were gone Reminded me of a song you hum Inside your car And now I'm bleeding myself on the floor I'm taking pharmacy pills by the handful I'm drinking chemicals found in the drawer I'm going home I'm here to help you You're mine to rescue Hold you, have you You're mine to rescue Mine Then you were gone Just like a thief in the night you were gone Reminded me of a song you hum Inside your car
7.
Stupid Boy 04:09
In your head It made perfect sense I bet The steps you stepped By stepping over them Stupid boy Stupid boy The thoughts you led Climbing into bed The fires lit And soon this house will join it To taste the end To feel it sinking in You found a friend By god you found a friend Stupid boy Stupid boy And now it's resting on my shoulders All your blessings on my shoulders I'm glad you'll die I'm glad you'll die
8.
My father's evil to the bone I hear him walking through the halls Back and forth to make it known My father's evil to the bone He'll keep you locked inside your home At least for air he poked these holes I'll try my best to break his hold But my father's evil to the bone You peep hole on your way to go You people on your way to go
9.
A flock of birds fly over your head You look down never to see them again They fly south, passed the mountains To an island away from here May all their dreams come true Cars drive by on the other side As the sun goes down and rises somewhere else The passersby blur the corner of your eye The blue goes home to kiss his wife And the red goes home to nothing May all their dreams come true Dodo You hold it in for as long as you can Until your chest is finally falling and rising again As you drive south, passed the mountains To an island away from here May all your dreams come true
10.
The Night 03:59
Down, down in a hole Air stale and cold From here everything's lost From here everything's lost Are you lonely As I hold you in the night? Right, right where I want All, all the chips fall From now and forever on Now and forever on Are you lonely As I hold you in the night? Now all of my friends Are gone, gone with the wind Where, where to begin Oh where, where to begin Are you lonely As I hold you in the night?
11.
There's no such thing as good There's no such thing as evil And Kiefer Sutherland can keep believing Keep believing There's no such thing as Buddha Allah, Shiva, God or Jesus People dreamed this in the morning And believed it in evening And I hate to break the news And I know we've got the blues But when we check under our pillows The fairy keeps leaving the tooth There's no such thing as me There's no such thing as you And Kiefer Sutherland can keep believing Keep believing Right or wrong Right or wrong
12.
Eliza 04:03
I'm in a hurry, sorry, would you please come back I know you think we're friends but we are far from that We started off together now we're off the tracks And I'm praying everyday one day we'll get it back Oh the places we would go Although it didn't work out it was still a blast And I know I'll never find somebody after that I loved you every moment baby that's a fact And although I didn't show it you can count on that Oh the places we would go Oh Eliza, when I met you I was dreaming in my head Now Eliza, when I see you I'm wishing you were dead Oh Eliza please go on your way Oh Eliza please go on your way
13.
Summertime's closed Winter time blows And everyone knows it Everyone knows it Fuck if I know Anything at all About anything at all I mean anything at all Well you made it out alright You made it out alright this time God that was close I'm locking the door I'm turning the bolt I sleep here no more Well you made it out alright You made it out alright this time No more singing in this house Walls are empty, the drawers cleaned out In the evening in this house As you're turning you're walking out Girl I got to tell you something Girl I got to tell you something
14.
You carry a rifle and bury your chest You play the new anthem You won't let it end You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm watching a thousand faces at my door You call from the courtyard Your voice it is met By turns of the head and raises of hands You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm falling, a thousand faces at my door Your points hit the center Of tin hat nonsense And all that you're saying Is not sinking in You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm launching a thousand faces at my door You ain't no messiah A preacher at best Your words come from high up The steps of bull shit You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm dying, a thousand faces at my door I carry you slowly You walk with a limp I could have forgotten But I just didn't You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm standing, a thousand faces at my door My head in a slumber My feet off the bed All that we went through This nightmare won't end You are not my best friend Just someone who talks a lot like them Well I'm broken, a thousand faces at my door
15.
Born and raised there Found my grave there By myself I walk towards the light In my end Almost grazed me Passed right through me I'm watching The dawn hit the light In my end Never knew me Never saw me My grave will say He walked towards the light In his end Born and raised there Found my way there My door is closed I'm one with the light In my end

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The John Whites a.k.a. The Thousand Faces
A Light Will Be Thrown
Cave Paint Vol. IV

Produced, Composed, Recorded
and Performed by John White
“The Night” Backup vocals by Josh Brown
“Eliza” Bass by Ben Alvarez
“When I Pause” Backup vocals by Joseph Castor
“The Devil's Chaplain” Lead Guitar by Maht Paulos
Album Art by Devin Renshaw
Mixed by John White
Mastered by Dean White
Recorded in Provo, UT

© & ℗ 2008, 2011 Here Here Records
All Rights Reserved

Thank you to my family, Alec Wilson, KC & Josh Brown,
Ben Alvarez, Sean Brown, David Padeken, Byron Stout,
Neil Bly & all the good times at the Tiki Hut.

Dedicated to
Joseph Campbell, Kanye West and Marijuana.

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released December 12, 2008

Produced, Composed, Recorded and Performed by John White

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