The community is sick
(Please believe)
And the community is blind
(In labor and hope)
Yell
(And joy)

And it's colder and pouring
('Cause the light got little boy)
And the sun is not shining
(I have destroyed)
Here
(Hope and joy)

And we're tangled in the sheet
(And lately I dream about)
Of each other's ruined
(Angels with molotovs)
Affair

Half of us are faking
(And nightly they fist me)
And the other half is tired
(Wrists like tender trucks)
And scared

And these hands could've moved mountains
These hands could've moved mountains


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    almost too good to listen to

    Brian McGlynnon March 26, 2005   Link
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    one of the most beautiiful songs I've heard.

    OnTheMighton April 17, 2005   Link
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    now THIS is what I would call music

    nickvbon February 08, 2008   Link
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    wonderful stuff. i saw them live last month, and i was not expecting that this one but they did and it was ten times better - which hard to achieve since the record is breathtaking by itself.

    umma_gummaon June 26, 2008   Link
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    For me this song is about how wasteful and futile we are and how strong we can be if we really believe in something...

    stuartrulezon July 03, 2008   Link
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    i think this is about somebody who is disappointed with herself or himself, he or she had the potential to do beautiful things and to accomplish something for good but instead she or he destroyed everything and the guilt is eating him or her

    xERaon December 31, 2008   Link
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    Amazing... I've heard A Silver Mt. Zion for the first time almost a week ago and i started with this song... since then i bought the entire 5 albums and i can't stop listening! they're like a child discovering music for the first time...really amazing... and this one expresses the feelings of every underachiever as of what he/she could have done if had the chance but didn't... the idea of "what i would've done" is hypnotizing by it self!.. if i had the opportunity?...who knows? if i could?..maybe anything!

    ringingofbellson October 28, 2009   Link
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    the last 1 minute of the song is wonderfull

    efrimon July 27, 2010   Link

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