Hearing Voices

words and music copyright 2003 by Howard Ashby Kranz

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I awoke in half a dream, and hearing voices, hearing voices

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Hearing halfdreamed confidences, offering me the key

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Speaking from inside my lost tooth - I strained to listen, strained to listen:

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“Just let go your solid chains and taste eternity.”

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Voices tell us what to do - Sometimes they’re kindly, sometimes stern

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And it’s our calling to discern when we should answer, and when we should say no.

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Crazy old man at the bus stop’s hearing voices, hearing voices

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In his gap-toothed smile I sense a strained intensity

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It could be he’s a prophet - but he’s probably crazy, he’s probably just crazy

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I recall how in my dream my lost tooth set me free.

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Voices tell us what to do - Sometimes they’re madness, sometimes real

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We only know by what we feel when we should answer, and when we should say no.

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Everyone who’s listening is hearing voices, hearing voices

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But the harder part is to determine what they say

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Thank you friends, it’s wild down here but it’s time to surface, time to surface

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I will choose to ponder these strange thoughts another day.

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Voices tell us what to do - Sometimes they’re kindly, sometimes stern

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And it’s our calling to discern when we should answer, and when we should say no.