
Faith, Hope and Carnage

So much hope and so much hopelessness.
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but my intention is not to provoke. That’s important. Negative responses take up mental space. They require time and energy they often don’t deserve, time and energy I would rather put elsewhere.
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There is the work, of course, and if we can free it from that sort of self-absorption or self-conceit, so that it becomes an expression of love, then that has extraordinary value.
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I want to know I have done something of value within my allotted time, for others, that the songs have been of some utility to people.
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Our shared predicament was a gift that could potentially have transformed the world into something extraordinary. To
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move on my part to make a song seem in
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It seems to me that some of my contemporaries just became disenchanted and cynical about things. And I kind of understand it, because sometimes the world feels like a fucking lunatic asylum, and the desire to
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This is how I have chosen to live my life – in uncertainty, and by doing so to be open to the divine possibility of things, whether it exists or not.
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But the songs do have a greater function for me. They’re the way I measure my life, song by song, in order to continue a creative journey that will surely never really reach its destination,