THAS 2014: The Great Mandala

(Slow guitar lick)

So I told him that he'd better shut his mouth,
And do his job like a man.

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(And he answered, "Listen, Father,
I will never kill another."
He thinks he's better
than his brother that died,
What the hell does he think he's doing
To his father who brought him up right?

Take your place on The Great Mandala,
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now, you must choose now,
And if you lose you're only losing your life.)

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(Slow guitar lick)

Tell the jailer not to bother,

With his meal of bread and water today.

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(He is fasting 'til the killing's over,
He's a martyr, he thinks he's a prophet,

But he's a coward, he's just playing the game,
He can't do it, he can't change it,
It's been going on for ten thousand years.

Take your place on The Great Mandala,
As it moves through your brief moment of time.

Win or lose now, you must choose now,
And if you lose you're only losing your life.)

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(Slow guitar lick)

What's the rumbling in the courtyard?
Seven thousand faces are turned to the gate.

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(What's that they are saying?  Kill the traitor,
Kill the traitor, kill the traitor, kill the traitor,
La, la, la, etc.

Take your place on The Great Mandala,
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now, you must choose now,
And if you lose you're only losing your life.)

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(Slow guitar lick)

Tell the people they are safe now,

Hunger stopped him, he lies still in his cell.

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(Death has gagged his accusations,
We are free now, we can kill now,
We can hate now, now we can end the world.
We're not guilty, he was crazy,
And it's been going on for ten thousand years.

Take your place on The Great Mandala,
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now, you must choose now,
And if you lose you're only losing your life.)

This sequence from Hooper-the-documentarian - single-camera, live performance, so no editing between of different performances - is all about where it's at at the slow guitar riff.  Take your place on The Great Mandala.  As it moves through your brief moment of time, win or lose now, you must choose now.  And if you lose, you're only losing your life.