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A Silver Mt. Zion's lyrics & chords

A Silver Mt. Zion uses a number of different variations of the name on different releases with respect to line-up changes. A Silver Mt. Zion is a band formed in 1999, in Montreal, Quebec, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar. According to an interview with VPRO Radio in The Netherlands, originally the project was for Efrim to learn how to score music, but the idea was soon abandoned as Efrim decided that he preferred music not to be defined by rules, preferring simply what sounds best. Despite ...read more

13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed

sit in the middle of three galloping dogs

stumble then rise on some awkward morning

movie (never made)

broken chords can sing a little

blown-out joy from heaven's mercied hole

for wanda

god bless our dead marines

mountains made of steam

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horses in the sky

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sisters! brothers! small boats of fire are falling from the sky!

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could've moved mountains...

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the triumph of our tired eyes

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built then burnt (hurrah! hurrah!)

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take these hands and throw them in the river

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hang on to each other

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ring them bells (freedom has come and gone)

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this gentle hearts like shot bird's fallen.

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1,000,000 died to make this sound

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teddy roosevelt's guns

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blindblindblind

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13 blues for thirteen moons

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c'mon come on (loose an endless longing.)

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sow some lonesome corner so many flowers bloom

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little ones run

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fuck off get free (for the island of montreal)

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american motor over smoldered field

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more action! less tears!

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goodbye desolate railyard

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austerity blues

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there is a light

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pretty little lightning paw

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black waters blowed/engine broke blues

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what we loved was not enough

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tho you are gone i still often walk with you

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i built myself a metal bird

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take away these early grave blues

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there's a river in the valley made of melting snow

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kollapz tradixional (thee olde dirty flag)

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i fed my metal bird the wings of other metal birds

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'piphany rambler

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rains thru the roof at the grande ballroom (for capital steez)

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babylon was built on fire/starsnostars

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iron bridge to thunder bay

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nouveau morceau

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rappel

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the state itself did not agree

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psalms99

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any fucking thing you love

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birds toss precious flowers

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mountains

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long march rocket or doomed airliner

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there are other worlds (they have not told you of)

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lonely as the sound of lying on the ground of an airplane going down

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goodbye mile end forever

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tho you are gone

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fuck off get free

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cmon come on

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border crossing tales

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movie

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long march

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bury 3 dynamos

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all the kings are dead

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fuck this place

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dudes

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summer nights

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my silver mount zion special

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godspeed you black emperor

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debriefing

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light

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lonely as the sound of lying

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american motor

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some fucking car with gull wing doors

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spinning on air live sessions

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chat between audience and band

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poem patti smith

Four is over five Glossolalia Intro by yan Everything i say Sit in the middle 13 ange standing guard Hurrah hurrah Warm Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward Sisters brothers small boats Fodder on her wings Babylon stars n Marathon Fuck off get free we pour light on everything Rustic city fathers Wallace stevens Angel and kennedy Twelve Splendid He has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms Rattle The night that we stayed in So kiss me quick You Six Unknown End Silver sheets in the frost mountain sheen lover singing me Intermission Talk One Diminish me nyc Microphones in trees Kollaps tradicional Crowd noise Here comes the future I am waiting Five

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