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Lay Down Your Burdens

from Each Mortal Thing (2023) by Robert Farmer

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Our lives a gift
What a strange and wondrous thing is to exist
But our time is brief
Too short to live full of fear, pain, and grief
For when we’re gone
All that remains is the effect we had upon
The ones we leave
Are their lives better for our having been?

So lay down your burdens
Lay down your cares
Lay down your sorrow
Lay down despair
Seek out the silence
Seek out the song
Of every living thing
Before all that you are is lost and gone

Each mortal thing
Emerges from the darkness with a song to sing
No song the same
Each one is heard a moment then returns again
Each song a spark
Illuminating, like an echo in the dark
Our brief candle burns
And all too soon to the darkness returns

So lay down your burdens
Lay down your cares
Lay down your sorrow
Lay down despair
Seek out the silence
Seek out the song
Of every living thing
Before all that you are is lost and gone

Since it is taught
That nothing comes from nothing, and naught returns to naught
That all life’s conjoined
And we are all of one body, matter in the void
As each leaf of grass
Contains within it the entire universe
So each thing that’s born
Is not contained within the limit of its form

So lay down your burdens
Lay down your cares
Lay down your sorrow
Lay down despair
Seek out the silence
Seek out the song
Of every living thing
Before all that you are is lost and gone

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from Each Mortal Thing (2023), released May 22, 2023

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Robert Farmer Northampton, UK

Songwriter/"Singer". Creator of numerous downbeat, lo-fi recordings, adding unnecessarily to the seemingly infinite digital white noise of cyberspace.

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