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Jesus, don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can combine anything you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have
Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
You can rely on me honey
You can combine anything you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have
Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun
Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around
Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around
Lyrics submitted by jonesth
Track duration: 03:51
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I don't read the first line as a command ("Jesus, don't cry") but an observation: "Jesus don't (doesn't) cry." Jesus and his teachings stand for deep compassion paired with strength, the capacity to feel the suffering of the world without being overwhelmed by it. Here in our mortal bodies, each of us is a "burning sun," a tower waiting to fall, sooner or later. And even in that decay there is a dark beauty. There is music to everything, a rhyme and reason echoing in chaos: tears streaming down a grieving face, the terrible scraping of falling towers, the strumming of guitar, all in tune, rhyming together in the great symphony of life and death. Each of us is trapped in a falling tower, all solid things decay, and only love is real, only love remains. Even the ancient stars will burn out one day. So why not, as a dying man would savor his last cigarette, savor your love in this brief life?
I have no idea if that made sense. But all right.
I also wonder if the 'turning your orbit around' line refers to the lines 'You were right about the stars, Each one is a setting sun', in a way saying, well yeah, but they are also all rising stars.
"Jesus, don't cry you can rely on my honey you can combine anything you want"
says to me: I'm exasperated, quit whining, you know I will tell you the truth, I know we disagreed on that arrangement but go ahead, if that will make you happy, combine anything you want.
"Ill be around you were right about the stars each one is a setting sun"
I'm not going anywhere, not looking for someone to replace you, just need a break, and yes all of those other "stars" think the sun rises and sets with them all creative people are a bit high maintenance.
"Tall buildings shake Voices escape singing sad sad songs Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around"
The world is going to crumble yes, I know, there you go with the sad songs again, you only feel and see the sadness and bitter melodies and that is what makes you spin/work being sad and depressed is what makes you tick can't you see that?
"Voices whine Skyscrapers are scraping together Your voice is smoking Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around"
It is escalating and patience is being lost with this person it is getting worse instead of better. Building shake vs. scrape and voices escape vs. whine. last cigarettes I think refer to a final request - so go ahead but all you get is your final request (last cigarette)but it IS over.
"Our love Our love Our love is all we have"
The only thing we have in common anymore is the mutal love and/or talent for music or writing
"Our love Our love is all of God's money Everyone is a burning sun"
Our love of creating and our musical talent came from God, even that isn't ours it was given to us and it can be gone (burning sun) in the blink of an eye.