Light Comes Down, like in Exodus

from The Artist by Jon David Russell

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Fender Rhodes (II)
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Bassoon
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E. Bass
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E. Drumset
Bongos
Hi Hats
Clap
Mellotron
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Cello
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Voice

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Brute movement is a mystery to me
It makes loving act invisibly
Think-loving saves my fingers endlessly
Somebody go and put the human back in me
I need an offering of darkness
Somebody go and bring the darkness back to me

I'm about to lose it in an Eastern light
When the big screen explodes with possibility
And asks, "Where do you live?"
And, "Who do you know?"
And, "What do you look like?
What do you look like?"
--I look like one who looks with eyes.

It isn't that I turn from possibility
With life streaming right in front of me
It isn't that I type with fingers all the time
I was lonely in Chicago just one time
This plague of locust just gets bigger all the time

I'm about to lose it in the Grecian sense
When the big flame explodes with possibility
And asks, "Where do you live?"
And, "Who do you know?"
And, "What do you look like?
"What do you look like?"
--I look like one who looks for help.

Brute movement is a mystery to me
And think-love is almost invisible
And I ask, "Where did it go?"
And, "Who do I love?"
And, "Where is the darkness?"

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from The Artist, released November 11, 2012

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Jon David Russell Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jon David Russell is a musician, composer, and visual artist living in Pittsburgh, PA

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