Child Of Dust

by Thrice

From the album: The Alchemy Index

Track 24 of 24 on The Alchemy Index (2009).

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Lyrics for Child Of Dust

Dear Prodigal, you are my son and I Supplied you not your spirit but your shape All Eden's wealth arrayed before your eyes I fathomed not you wanted to escape And though I only ever gave you love Like every child you've chosen to rebel Uprooted flow'rs and filled their holes with blood Ask for not whom they toll, the solemn bells A child of dust, to mother now return For every seed must die before it grows And though above the world may toil and turn No prying spade will find you here below Now safe beneath their wisdom and their feet Here I will teach you truly how to sleep.

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More from The Alchemy Index

  1. Firebreather
  2. The Messenger
  3. Backdraft
  4. The Arsonist
  5. Burn The Fleet
  6. The Flame Deluge
  7. Digital Sea
  8. Open Water
  9. Lost Continent
  10. Night Diving
  11. The Whaler
  12. Kings Upon The Main
  13. Broken Lungs
  14. The Sky Is Falling
  15. A Song For Milly Michaelson
  16. Daedelus
  17. As The Crow Flies
  18. Silver Wings
  19. Moving Mountains
  20. Digging My Own Grave
  21. The Earth Isn't Humming
  22. The Lion And The Wolf
  23. Come All You Weary
  24. Child Of Dust