"Let Time Take Its Toll" genre: Folk
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	All about living in the nuclear age...and one of psychic numbness, and how people of spiritual resolve are responding...this song is also known as: What's Left (It's NOT The END!)?
	CD: Busker For FREEDOM   Label: Kolo Credits: Jesse, guitar and vocals
	Story Behind the Song Recorded in 1986, after I'd heard an emminent pyschologist suggest that people were in deep denial about the Mutually Assured Destruction "policy" of government defense officials...the phrase "psychically numb" got me to thinking about being born the day after the "Trinity" test in New Mexico in July, 1945 Lyrics When you were just a child, still growing up wild You might have been told not to suck your thumb But ever since '45 most everyone alive Sure seems to be sold on psychically numb And those who build H-bombs don't seem to have qualms They have become terribly bold - taking it to the edge and then some Does doing that get them the power that they want It really is the problem that does grievously haunt this old world down deep in its soul Now, don't you think that it's time to point out the crime Elijah's sweet horn never could be more dear It's so easy to hide ONE's inherited pride A full face of scorn laughs at most any tear That falls out of heart whenever you start To heed signs that warn the END is most definitely near Don't you bother to listen to any of those taunts Like your first rainbow glistens, you can shrive all those haunts And grow into a sense of the whole It's not the END, if you know it It's not the END, if you know it It's not the END, if you show it Like ONE who truly understands It's coming soon, if you make it It's coming soon, if you make it It's coming soon, when you take it Into gentle, loving hands When we live together, even stormy weather Doesn't seem so bad, it soon passes away Just so, the flags of the world, may one fine day be furled For a festival we had, so we ALL could say: A sense of planet earth is now coming to birth Like the love of a lass and a lad, a new world is like the first of May And there's no time like the present (...as if that never were true) Be you king, queen, or Peasant, what's there left to do Except let time take it's toll YES! There's no time like the present (...as if that never were true) Be you king, queen, or Peasant, what's there left to do Except let time take it's toll (When I sing this song live, I repeat the bridge at the end of the third verse)

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