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The Great Release

The Great Release lyrics by O'Brother. A slip of tongue These words fall like an avalanche And I won't be ignored My lungs expire The water's getting deeper...

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The Great Release

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A slip of tongue

These words fall like an avalanche

And I won't be ignored

My lungs expire

The water's getting deeper and

I can't hold in my breath.

So hear me now

This distance is quite simply too much

To take in at once.

My lungs expire

The water's getting deeper and

I can't hold in my breath.

Malice on your breath

Your trembling hands speak of severed ties

In a language that not even God could divide.

So lay your weary, burdened head upon my side.

Sleep will bring you close to God.

It will bring you close.

Swallow them down, it burns like fire

Your words are the devil's machine.

Keep your breath, you're leaking lies

Wait now on approaching sleep.

The death of day, the great release.

Where words cannot breed like disease

From lepers' rotting hands and feet.

Swallow them down, it burns like fire.

Your words are the devil's machine

Keep your breath, you're leaking lies

Like the cracks in the teeth of the beast

Swallow them down, it burns like fire.

Your words are the devil's machine.

So watch closer now as I slip and

I swallow my tongue.

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