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Static

Static lyrics by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Part I: Terrible Canyons of Static Part II: Atomic Clock At the tone... 3 hours, 21 minutes; coordinated...

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Static

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Part I: Terrible Canyons of Static

Part II: Atomic Clock

At the tone... 3 hours, 21 minutes; coordinated universal time

Part III: Chart #3

Prepared in innocence to meet our king of glory

And so we have this

You have it in your secret windows

And you're understanding to understand it and to bring it forth

It takes minute detail

It takes a holy life

It takes motions

It takes dedication

It takes dedication

It takes a death

And only God can allow it

And you couldn't do it if you're not the seed of God

And so the path through the great corridors

These are corridors unto his perfection

That is which the prophet and the Urim and Thummim has penetrated

That through this great sea of blackness

That I penetrated through these corridors

And I went through that last segment

Where I went through these dark serpentines

I passed through that corridor

Where they sat, where they are

And when you penetrate to the most high God

You will believe you are mad

You will believe you've gone insane

But I tell you if you follow the secret window

And you die to the ego nature

You will penetrate this darkness

Oh yes, there's many a man or woman

That's been put in the insane asylum

When this has happened to them

And they're sitting there today, people think they're insane

But they saw something that's real

And they see it when they're on drugs

The only thing is they see it

Not through the light of God, and the way I show you

I show you to see it through the light of God

And the understanding of God

Because when you see the face of God, you will die

And there will be nothing left of you

Except the God-man, the God-woman

The heavenly man, the heavenly woman

The heavenly child

There'll be prayer on your lips day and night

There'll be a song of jubilee waiting for your king

There will be nothing you will not be be looking for in this world

Excepting for your God

This is all a dream

A dream in death

And so I went through that with you

I encountered Hell and the great serpentines of the highest order

And I went through that when I showed you chart #3

The question is asked in Urim and Thummim concerning the pit

This horrible pit of miry clay

Urim and Thummim

You can ask me a question

If it's asked, from the right being or the right soul

Out of Urim and Thummim

I can give you unspoken words that's never been spoken

It's not even in your Bible

Yet, it does clarify what is spoken in the Bible

Part IV: World Police and Friendly Fire

Part V: [... +The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]

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