The Fuse

It's coming from so far away
 It's hard to say for sure
 Whether what I hear is music or the wind
 Through an open door
 There's a fire high in the empty sky
 Where the sound meets the shore
 There's a long distance loneliness
 Rolling out over the desert floor
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 And the years that I spent lost in the mystery
 Fall away leaving only the sound of the drum
 Like a part of me
 It speaks to the heart of me
 Forget what life used to be
 You are what you choose to be
 It's whatever it is you see
 That life will become
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 Whatever it is you might think you have
 You have nothing to lose
 Through every dead and living thing
 Time runs like a fuse
 And the fuse is burning
 And the earth is turning
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 Though the years give way to uncertainty
 And the fear of living for nothing strangles the will
 There's a part of me
 That speaks to the heart of me
 Though sometimes it's hard to see
 It's never far from me
 Alive in eternity
 That nothing can kill
 Oh lord
 Are there really people starving still?
 Look out beyond the walls of Babylon
 How long will their needs go unfilled
 I want to say right now I'm going to be around
 I'm going to be around
 When the walls and towers are crumbling
 When the towers are tumbling down
 And I will tune my spirit to the gentle sound
 I want to hear the sound
 Of the waters lapping on a higher ground
 Of the children laughing