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Have You Passed Through This Night? Lyrics
"This great evil. Where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light? Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow and the sun to shine?
Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?"
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This song is fucking. incredible.
Reminds me of what mystics call the "Dark Night of the Soul", during which one's growing compassion extends one's sufferings from one's own to those of the entire world, supplanting questions like "Why me?" with "Why is there suffering at all?"
It's a sample from The Thin Red Line. Any one have anything else? Awesome song, awesome band.
wow - didn't think there'd be any EITS entries here, since it's all instrumental. But yeah, they are an awesome band. Can't wait to pick up their new CD.
they have a NEW CD? :O :O :O :O
or are you talking about earth is not a cold dead place?
Hey Uncola - yeah, i should have been more specific, since it's not all THAT new - but I don't have it yet, so it's new to me... sorry to freak ya out!
this song is so ill...it's scary. If you listen to it loudly...you will jump out of your socks and get goose bumps. The begining is someone walking thourgh the woods comptemplating the meaning of life. Why are we here? Who's killing us? Woooo gives me the creeps. Then they get into some instrumental stuff. 'nuff said. If you don't own both albums...go buy em now.
as sean7711 said above, the lyrics are actually an audio sample taken from Terance Malik's "The Thin Red Line," which is a World War II movie set in the Pacific Theater. The dialogue is actually a soldier questioning war, to himself, asking if the killing of man actually benefits the world in anyway, and finally wonders whether the enemy army (Japanese) ever considered this.
as sean7711 said above, the lyrics are actually an audio sample taken from Terance Malik's "The Thin Red Line," which is a World War II movie set in the Pacific Theater. The dialogue is actually a soldier questioning war, to himself, asking if the killing of man actually benefits the world in anyway, and finally wonders whether the enemy army (Japanese) ever considered this.
See this band live, it will change your life, your head, and your heart.
I just heard this band for the first time in the fantastic movie FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and they are amazing and original, this song is great
I saw them live. All I have to say after seeing them is that they are utterly amazing. The best instrumental band I have come across ever. They played until the drummer passed out, never stopping.