Album: Paste Magazine Sampler #56: September 2009
Listen to me, daughter of mine:
All kingdoms grow and flourish, then they decline.
All that they've won unrighteously
becomes their own undoing, eventually.
Hard times are coming.
Maybe in your life, hard times are coming.
This is the ark we'll build on dry ground:
I'll teach you to grow your own food and keep it sound,
to bake your bread with your own hands,
and how to coax survival out of the land.
Hard times are coming.
Maybe in our lives, hard times are coming.
Daughter of mine, don't be afraid.
Recall the purpose for which you have been made.
Give in to fear and you'll become
the very thing I wish to protect you from.
Hard times are coming.
Maybe in your life, hard times are coming.
Hard times are coming.
Maybe in our lives, hard times are coming.