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The Spark

So I lost my job, lost my car, and I could not pay the rent
Hung on just as long as I could but all my money got spent
I was sleeping on somebody's couch. They said I had to go
I was on the street when I heard this sound down in the arroyo

Chorus:
In between all that can and can’t be seen
Where the dirty meets the clean, somewhere in the dark
Beyond sex and race, beyond time and space
In a state of grace is the spark

I saw a tunnel with a painted face. I crawled in out of the sun
It looked like the place in that old B movie where the giant ants came from
I thought I heard the some whispering as I made my way along
But there was one thing getting louder and louder it sounded just like a song

Chorus

Then I saw a light. It was a beautiful sight
Saw some women and men. They said - Come on in
Then I made a sound. They said - Keep it down
If you wanna join in, you better start whispering

So they taught me the secret password. They taught me the secret shake
They showed me which of my thoughts was real, which of them suckers was fake
Ain't a whole lot of conversation, that don't bother me at all
But the thing that gives me inspiration’s the thing that drives me up the wall
The sound of this drip drip drip
So here I am down in the ground like some kind of water rat
Believe I’m gonna stay right here til I figure out where I'm at
I always have a place to go when the world seems so unkind
Though I know it's always there, sometimes it's hard to find

Chorus

Hey, everybody!
So good to see you!

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from Camped Out in the Big Bang, released June 1, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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