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  1. Birth

From the recording Parables

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Plates that held the structure of the earth
Strained against their configurations
Boundaries collided and shot upward
When you pierced my side.

It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth

There are mountains beneath these trees
Whose feet reach down among the rocks and gravel
Pull from that place
Drag and fling it into the sun where it can spark and burn
And slowly there is fertile ground

It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth

There is something that outwaits the trees
Who know they will fall and be pulled under
I have been to that boundary line
It runs through four corners and is staked to the heart
I have put within it all I have
If it is not freely given, it is not free.

Take it
Take it
Take it
Take it
Take it
Take it take it take it

It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth
It was a violent birth

Take it
Take it
Take it
Take it