Song of the Week: Mutton and Strawberries - October 26, 2019
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Chris Thile\\u2019s Song of the Week for October 26, 2019: \\u201cMutton and Strawberries.\\u201d The band: Chris Thile, Rachael Price, Mike Elizondo, Armand Hirsch, Gabriel Kahane, Jeremy Kittel, Joey Waronker.
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\\n\\nLyrics:
\\nWhat hath God wrought
\\nOf strength unfelt
\\nGifts neglected
\\nAnd love withheld
\\nWhat hath God wrought (x3)
\\n\\nLucretia left the world without a fight
\\nFather left it clutching the handle of a knife
\\nHis memory never failing to give that knife a twist
\\nAll has led to this:
\\nMutton\\u2014
\\nMy children scattered like so many seeds
\\nSeparated from one another and from me
\\nAll my colleagues snickering at Samuel Morse the Scientist
\\nAll has led to this:
\\nMutton\\u2014 (x2)
\\n\\nDark magic or miracle
\\nI don\\u2019t care
\\nIt\\u2019s wonderful
\\nListen, America\\u2019s about to bare her soul
\\nAnd maybe her teeth as well
\\nIt\\u2019s a sound
\\nTo behold
\\nGood or bad only someone else\\u2019s time will tell
\\n\\n\\u2014and strawberries
\\n\\nAnd a wire to connect the world
\\nA wire to remind it
\\nThat nothing can become itself
\\n\\u2018Til something else defines it
\\n\\nOne wire to connect the world
\\nOne wire to remind it
\\nThat nothing can become itself
\\n\\u2018Til something else defines it
\\n\\nNow a ghost of wire haunts this world
\\nA ghost of wire drives it
\\nUnto the need to know itself
\\nAnd with that knowledge binds it
\\n\\nOne ghost of wire haunts this world
\\nOne ghost of wire drives it
\\nUnto the need to know itself
\\nAnd with that knowledge binds it
\\n\\n\\u2018Til we use it to connect the world
\\nAnd let the world remind us
\\nThat none of us become ourselves
\\nWhile someone else defines us
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