Slouching Towards Bethlehem-Joni Mitchell

[00:26.61]Turning and turning within the widening gyre [00:34.17] [00:36.16]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:40.29] [00:43.17]Things fall apart, the center cannot hold [00:50.73] [00:51.92]And a blood dimmed tide is loosed upon the world [00:57.17] [00:59.42]Nothing is sacred, the ceremony sinks [01:09.48] [01:12.49]Innocence is drowned in anarchy [01:16.92] [01:18.80]The best lack conviction [01:20.55] [01:24.99]Given some time to think [01:26.92] [01:28.55]And the worst are full [01:30.17]Of passion without mercy [01:32.05] [01:38.61]Surely some revelation is at hand [01:41.42] [01:44.11]Surely it's the second coming [01:46.05]And the wrath has finally taken form [01:48.49] [01:49.67]For what is this rough beast [01:51.43] [01:52.43]It's hour come at last [01:54.17] [01:57.99]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:01.36] [02:03.55]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:07.11] [02:11.43]Oh oh yeah [02:17.01]To be born, oh oh oh yeah [02:31.80]Hoping and hoping as if by my weak faith [02:38.61] [02:40.92]The spirit of this world would heal and rise [02:45.49] [02:48.05]Vast are the shadows that straddle and strafe [02:55.62] [02:56.36]And struggle in the darkness troubling my eyes [03:02.24] [03:07.49]Shaped like a lion, it has the head of a man [03:14.93] [03:16.93]With a gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun [03:21.55] [03:24.05]And it's moving its slow [03:26.18] [03:27.56]Thighs across the desert sands [03:31.24] [03:33.68]Through dark indignant, reeling falcons [03:39.06] [03:43.62]Surely some revelation is at hand [03:47.31] [03:49.18]Surely it's the second coming [03:51.12]And the wrath has finally taken form [03:53.24] [03:54.49]For what is this rough beast [03:56.43] [03:57.43]It's hour come at last [03:59.25] [04:02.99]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:06.50] [04:08.56]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:11.87] [04:16.30]Oh oh yeah [04:20.00] [04:21.87]To be born, hey Bethlehem, shape of a lion [04:31.82] [04:36.43]Raging and raging, it rises from the deep [04:43.44] [04:44.94]Opening its eyes after twenty centuries [04:50.31] [04:53.19]Vexed to a nightmare, out of a stony sleep [05:00.19] [05:02.50]By a rocking cradle, by the sea of Galilee [05:06.63] [05:12.50]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:16.44] [05:18.19]Surely it's the second coming [05:20.25]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:22.44] [05:23.56]For what is this rough beast [05:25.69]It's hour come at last [05:28.19] [05:30.44]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:35.07] [05:37.44]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:40.19] [05:45.44]Oh oh yeah [05:49.32] [05:50.75]To be born, hey Bethlehem [05:59.12] [05:59.86]Shape of a lion, oh oh [06:11.20]Just the shape of a lion, oh oh [06:17.20] [06:17.95]Hey Bethlehem, shape of a lion