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Chris Thile\\u2019s Song of the Week for March 21, 2020, \\u201cVail Monograph, Version 2\\u201d (originally from October 19, 2019).
\\nThe band: Chris Thile, Aoife O\\u2019Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Noam Pikelny.
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\\n\\nLyrics:
\\n\\u201cCanst thou send lightnings
\\nSo that they may go
\\nAnd say unto thee here we are?\\u201d
\\nA rhetorical question
\\nFrom our Father In Heaven
\\nTo Job in his suffering
\\nHere below
\\nTo Job in his suffering\\u2014
\\n\\nAs we sent the first lightnings
\\nAll those years ago
\\nI quoted that question by heart
\\nThen delivered the answer
\\nFull of magnets and wire
\\nOn behalf of a dreamer
\\nHere below
\\nOn behalf of a dreamer\\u2014
\\n\\n\\u201cSounds like you did this\\u201d
\\nI did but\\u2014
\\nIt was the least that I could do
\\n\\u2014than I would do to serve his genius
\\nTo serve his\\u2014
\\n`\\u201cSounds like it\\u2019s time to set the record straight
\\nNothing\\u2019s wrong with calling a good man great, but a bad man...\\u201d
\\nNo, he\\u2019s not a bad man
\\n\\nThough it\\u2019s true before we met
\\nThe God of Wire was struggling to connect
\\nWhat he had with what he dreamt
\\nThen I applied a method to the madness
\\nAnd the thing began to click
\\nWe were like a couple little kids
\\n\\u2018Cause it was clear this was it
\\nI\\u2019d take him by the hand and lead him to whatever future he had seen
\\nAnd pan whatever gold was in his stream
\\nOf consciousness that flowed between his heart and anything like love for the doer of his dreams
\\n\\n\\u201cSounds like he used you\\u201d
\\nHe did but\\u2014
\\nOh how I burned to be of use
\\n\\u2014to be of use and not be slave to
\\nA mind as\\u2014
\\nAs cold and dry and barren as this one is
\\nAt least when in comparison to one like his
\\n\\u201cYou have a great mind\\u201d
\\nNo, his is the great mind
\\n\\nAnd it will never be at rest
\\nWill ever trade this moment for the next
\\nAnd what it has for what it\\u2019s dreamt
\\n\\nSo even if the present is exactly what he wanted it to be
\\nHe\\u2019ll miss his un-manifested destiny
\\nAnd find a better man than me
\\nTo take him by the hand and lead him to whatever future he\\u2019s been seeing
\\nAnd pan whatever gold\\u2019s still in his stream
\\nOf consciousness that flows between his heart and anything like love for me
\\n\\nI send him a lightning
\\nEvery now and then
\\nSaying unto him \\u201chere we are
\\nI don\\u2019t expect you to answer
\\nBut I miss you dear dreamer
\\nAnd what we did together
\\nHere below
\\nO what we did together here\\u201d
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