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Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 10 a.m.

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Chris Thile\\u2019s Song of the Week for October 19, 2019, \\u201cVail Monograph, Version 2\\u201d The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O\\u2019Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Noam Pikelny.

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\\u201cCanst thou send lightnings

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So that they may go

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And say unto thee here we are?\\u201d

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A rhetorical question

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From our Father In Heaven

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To Job in his suffering

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Here below

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To Job in his suffering\\u2014

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As we sent the first lightnings

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All those years ago

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I quoted that question by heart

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Then delivered the answer

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Full of magnets and wire

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On behalf of a dreamer

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Here below

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On behalf of a dreamer\\u2014

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\\u201cSounds like you did this\\u201d

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I did but\\u2014

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It was the least that I could do

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\\u2014than I would do to serve his genius

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To serve his\\u2014

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`\\u201cSounds like it\\u2019s time to set the record straight

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Nothing\\u2019s wrong with calling a good man great, but a bad man...\\u201d

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No, he\\u2019s not a bad man

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Though it\\u2019s true before we met

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The God of Wire was struggling to connect

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What he had with what he dreamt

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Then I applied a method to the madness

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And the thing began to click

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We were like a couple little kids

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\\u2018Cause it was clear this was it

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I\\u2019d take him by the hand and lead him to whatever future he had seen

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And pan whatever gold was in his stream

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Of consciousness that flowed between his heart and anything like love for the doer of his dreams

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\\u201cSounds like he used you\\u201d

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He did but\\u2014

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Oh how I burned to be of use

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\\u2014to be of use and not be slave to

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A mind as\\u2014

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As cold and dry and barren as this one is

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At least when in comparison to one like his

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\\u201cYou have a great mind\\u201d

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No, his is the great mind

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And it will never be at rest

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Will ever trade this moment for the next

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And what it has for what it\\u2019s dreamt

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So even if the present is exactly what he wanted it to be

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He\\u2019ll miss his un-manifested destiny

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And find a better man than me

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To take him by the hand and lead him to whatever future he\\u2019s been seeing

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And pan whatever gold\\u2019s still in his stream

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Of consciousness that flows between his heart and anything like love for me

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I send him a lightning

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Every now and then

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Saying unto him \\u201chere we are

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I don\\u2019t expect you to answer

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But I miss you dear dreamer

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And what we did together

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Here below

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O what we did together here\\u201d

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