Name: Ambition
Duration: P00H04M12S
Description: I accidentally reversed some of the verses. My favorite part is the holy fire part, and my least favorite is the plane and the stage coach part. What the hell do those things even mean?

Ambition

from Before the Bough Breaks by Jon Atkins

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I accidentally reversed some of the verses. My favorite part is the holy fire part, and my least favorite is the plane and the stage coach part. What the hell do those things even mean?

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A feeling of change races up behind my face, all I know is moving out of place, and I begin to shake,
All on my own I exit the nesting zone, unannounced it just drops off, and I begin to fall,
And the plane won’t wait for us, it’s ambitious,
And the stage coach turns to dust, it’s ambitious, our ambition,
Talented girl, you were born into a hungry world, keep your calm it will not be long, until they have you lost,
Now Evelyn saves her Saturday nights on blades, someone suggests we pray for her, so I kneel and pray,
That sound might reignite a holy fire and so inspire a hand to scribe some ambitious lines,
That love might realign our crooked world of boys and girls and keep the cold,
And hold them close, for they might know,
That the plane won’t wait for us, it’s ambitious,
And the stage coach turns to dust, it’s ambitious, oh our ambitions,
Intelligent man, tell me what you understand, is black a color or just a shade thereof, or are you putting on,
Beautiful girl, please teach me of your golden curls, do they glimmer like a gift from god, or did you paint them on?

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from Before the Bough Breaks, released July 3, 2010

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