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[Verse 1]
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I had a dream that the mountains cried like a child for their mother
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There was poison in the seam and I saw eastern Tennessee flooding under
Bm
Black the hope, the Holy Ghost
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a deaf man hears inaudible thunder
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The hush, the chill, the iron will of man
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Sweeping everything in sight…with dynamite

[Verse 2]

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I had a child and her spirit was like wild horses running
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Unbridled and free, she was not the same as me, her engine gunning
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Make what you will or what you won’t
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You may play a part
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As the leaf bends and leans toward the light
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Oh the heart takes what it wants…like dynamite.

[Chorus]

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Those who have ears, as the smoke it clears
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will see things as they are
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to bend the will, you first must change the heart.
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[Verse 3]
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I dreamed I heard the sound of the last ‘Great God bird’ singing
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Lying in the trees I could hear the ax machines that were ringing
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This is like a fable to be told but I’d rather put it down
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Will we choose the noise of our desire,
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Or the hope that makes no sound? Like dynamite

[Chorus]

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Those who have ears, as the smoke it clears
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will see things as they are
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to bend the will, you first must change the heart.
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[Outro]
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desire, desire, desire like dynamite (repeat to fade out)