Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)
by Live

Album: Mental Jewelry (1991)
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  • heard a lot of talk about the ocean

    heard a lot of talk about the sea

    heard a lot of talk about a lot of things

    never meant that much to me

    heard a lot of talk about my spirit

    heard a lot of talk about my soul

    but I decided that anxiety and pain

    were better friends

    so I let it go

    did you let it go?

    let's get it back.

    let's get it back together.

    heard a lot of talk about this jesus

    a man of love, a man of strength

    but what a man was two thousand years ago

    means nothing at all to me today

    he could have been telling me about my

    higher self

    but he only lives inside my prayer

    so what he was may have been beautiful

    but the pain is right now

    and right here

    let it go!

    let it go!

    let it go, my friend

    and let's get it back

    let's get it back together


    Writer/s: CHAD ALAN GRACEY, CHAD DAVID TAYLOR, EDWARD JOEL KOWALCZYK, PATRICK DAHLHEIMER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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