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The Jesters Swing

from The Foolish and the Weak by Soulmobile Eternal

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This is the song going forth
for the day of the Lord,
and we're happy to report
there's a jester in the court!
We've all been wiggling on this hook for so long
it starts to feel like home, but no,
it's not, it's something you got to get free of.
My heart is longing for a change.

This is the day that we prayed for,
the one we waited for, tried to clear the way for,
got left and hated for!
We can't go back to what we were
before we heard the softly spoken word.

(And we weren't even faithful! Aw, it's disgraceful,
but what can you do when love chooses you?)
My heart is longing for a change.

We can dance and sing through the rhetoric of kings.
It is in illusion; they have lost their sting.
Oh, all creation sings a song, a silly song with wings,
stolen from the mouths of stones
till the jester's scaffold becomes a throne.

This is the song going forth for the day of the Lord,
and we're happy to report there's a jester in the court.

[Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
But the scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadows,
Keeping watch, keeping watch above His own

- James Russell Lowell]

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from The Foolish and the Weak, released July 4, 2008

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