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    "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

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    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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