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Devotion II

Release date: 2nd May 2011

From When the Smoke Clears
Track 3
3:36
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'Devotion II' by .foundation is an alternative track from the album 'When the Smoke Clears' (2011). The lyrics cast devotion as a kind of lifeline, with a narrator clinging on and insisting that love, faith, and sanity are poured into people, including the unseen, because desperate times demand desperate means. One line sums up the bargain at the heart of the song, “we live by desperate means”. It is a grimly determined plea for wholeness, even when the source of comfort is as precarious as a thread.

"Devotion II" is a track by .foundation, from the album When the Smoke Clears, released 2nd May 2011. The track is 3:36 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Devotion II

Hanging on by a thread, I pull myself back up

Cause I'll be god damned if this is the rope from which I hang myself

In desperate times we live by desperate means

We put our love and faith and sanity into anyone, even the unseen

As long as it will make us feel good, whole and complete

We'll put our trust into anything, if it takes away this uncertainty

The problems go unfixed

The anger goes unchecked

The emptiness goes unfed

The devotion remains to what will undo us

In desperate times we live by desperate means

Though I can't blame you for doing the same

So here's your choice: the truth or the end of a rope

I've never seen someone so scared of death pick a point, lay down and die

The problems go unfixed

The anger goes unchecked

The emptiness goes unfed

All this devotion remains to what will undo us

"Remember what I said about seeing a light when you're dying?" "Yeah" "That

Ain't true. I can't see a damn thing. "

Get your rope

Devotion

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From When the Smoke Clears

3:362011
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When the Smoke Clears
When the Smoke Clears
.foundation
3rd May 2011
Track number
3
Release year
2011
  1. 1Purple Heart
    2:48
  2. 2At Your Mercy
    2:01
  3. 3Devotion II
    3:36
  4. 4A Thousand Ways
    1:59

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