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alma cook - new nation lyrics

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[chorus:]
i know the new nation that we’ve been chasing
isn’t all for waste, and
i know you’re here when i need you around
but maybe i’d be stronger if i stayed longer
learning right from wrong, or
the other thousand things that i’m figuring out

[verse 1:]
she loves the morning
she loves every part of the day, but especially the morning
i think it’s in the artistic redemption—
the quiet call to lift eyelids & skylids
the second chances, the third chances
the fourth chances

and of all the people who might pet-tion god for another chance
she has a case
a case of trophies boasting of the ways she used to move
used to sing, used to
a case of empty bottles & ziplock backs
testifying to the ways she had been used
a case of book after wisdom after book
bought to be borrowed—and we do

her name is j
for the joy that she gives
for the jewel that she is
for the jazz that she lives
she’s bright in every sense of the word;
she’s bright because of the word
and her light is my morning

[chorus]

[verse 2:]
how humbling it is that a third of our lifetime is untouchable
are we so fragile that for every 16 hours of movement
we require 8 of stillness?
is the world so heavy that by our dying day we cannot lift it?
are we so in danger of thinking ourselves invincible
that we must be reintroduced to weakness on a nightly basis?

i think so
i think often about this
especially as i watch her 24 hours trimmed further & further down
until the ratio is flipped, leaving only one third for her use—
and a painful third

still, that third in all its discomfort brings a comfort—
better yet, a life—
like nothing i’ve seen in all my waking hours
from the heart of the storm
from the confusion of the worn
a revolution has been born
one that will outlive every sunset
until the day there is no sunset
and everything is as the son said

[chorus]

- alma cook lyrics

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