Please Stop Killing Us!

The legendary Canadian power trio Rush have a song called Peaceable Kingdom. It has some of the most powerful lyrics ever penned. Collectively these lyrics create a contrasting view of the line above. For example:

All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view A billion other voices are spreading other news

All this time we're hoping and praying we all might learn While a billion other teachers are teaching them how to burn

All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks Every spark a drifting ember of desire To fall upon the earth and spark another fire

But the most pungent lyric line is

The ones we wish would listen Are never going to hear.

Children 18:3's You Know We are all so Fond of Dying is a song that even if those people would shut up for half a second and listen, they are never going to hear. Because, you know, its a choice.

See if you can figure it out.

Children 18:3 You Know We are all so Fond of Dying

It's a lesson in progress How far away can we go? Everything is progress As far as I know Take a life and make it something less, please Anything more than stupid tests And tests and tests and tests I found the answer to my selfishness Cry, cry, cry Please stop killing us (You know we're all so fond of dying) Please stop using us They'll never shut up Please stop killing us (You know we're all so fond of dying) Please stop using us It's an acceptable practice And I am loathe to say Snuffed out the wicks from a sea of candles Maybe Jesus could take it away Please stop killing us (You know we're all so fond of dying) Please stop using us They'll never shut up Please stop killing us (You know we're all so fond of dying) Please stop using us The carousel comes 'round again I cry and scream, but I pretend They're running down and I can't chase Or put that smile out of place Say it isn't so! Come, they come to take them all away But I'm not going home Come, they come to take my soul away But I'm not going home Cry, cry, cry And we hear them sing

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