Hot Cross – Patience and Prudence

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These are new days with old stories
So let's wash the same denial in similar patterns
Because the emotions have become mere background noise

Please take the apple from your eye
We're blinded by desire
Hey, when were you this tall?
Memory serves us not at all

"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."
Or maybe your words.

Either way we're up to no good, rewriting our lives way more than we should,
And only loving each other cause we've never been sure that we could
You can't control our hearts. You can't console a heart that's impossible to touch and as such
I've thrown out regret, yet may have thought about it a little too much
You find that setting standards is less like revision and more like preparation

So much like what we've heard and what we've seen.
So far from what we want and what we mean

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    General Comment:I can't seem to be able to download this song anywhere. I tried Limewire and Frostwire. Does anyone know of a website where I can download individual mp3's or can someone send it to me? I want to put this on my ipod. I'd like A Tale For The Ages too. Thanks.
    Flag LouiseMorganon November 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think it has to do with the experiences everyone goes through in life.

    "To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." I think this means that you can't completely understand a person, because they have gone through different experiences in their life than in your own.

    That's just what it means to me, either way.
    Flag combatwoundedkevon September 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I thought Billy sang all the vocals?
    Flag chris-jerichoon March 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I starting listening to Saetia, then I started looking for new stuff then found Hot Cross. To me Saetia was way better then, Now I like Hot Cross way more.
    Flag MrClean03on August 17, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This is my fave song by hot cross but I just dont see how they are better than Saetia, Saetia are way further up on the scale than hot cross in my opinion.
    Flag Greeny341on July 20, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:AMAZING song!
    This band is just as good as saetia.
    and as for the background singer, then you are DEAD wrong, his voice goes along greatly with the rest of the song.
    Flag B12on December 04, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Impressive that you pulled that out of the book.
    Flag ClicKon November 19, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:Impressive that you pulled that out of the book.
    Flag ClicKon November 19, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:Billy seems to be big into Salman Rushdie. This is an exerpt from his book, Midnight's Children, "Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone, everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Last line look familiar?
    Flag SickandTiredon November 18, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:Well if your the apples of someones eye that means they want/like you so I suppose hes saying take that away. Maybe I don't know.
    Flag ClicKon November 18, 2004   Link

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