Name: Hidden Arms
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: This is a song about what happens after you realize that you are responsible for injustices that were done in your name, but that you were unaware of at the time. It's about what asking for forgiveness really entails. If you want to be political about it, you can.

Hidden Arms

from Maidens Rock by Cone of Magic

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This is a song about what happens after you realize that you are responsible for injustices that were done in your name, but that you were unaware of at the time. It's about what asking for forgiveness really entails. If you want to be political about it, you can.

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Hidden Arms
© 20202 Dan McLaughlin
All Rights Reserved.

Forgiveness. Sweet forgiveness.
Please teach me, I need to learn.
Forgive me.
Please tell me, how I can earn,
Forgiveness?
Sweet Forgiveness?

My blind eyes don’t excuse,
The things my hidden arms have built.
They can’t unfurl a flag of truce,
Or absolve me of my guilt.

Forgiveness. Sweet forgiveness.
Please teach me, I need to learn.
Forgive me.
Please tell me, how I can earn,
Forgiveness?
Sweet Forgiveness?

We thought we each were living,
A blameless, commonplace life.
Only taking, never giving,
We delivered only strife.

Now using hidden arms
I will never, again be
My eyes forever watching,
My heart open with apology.

Forgiveness. Sweet forgiveness.
Please teach me, I need to learn.
Forgive me.
Please tell me, how I can earn,
Forgiveness?
Sweet Forgiveness.
Sweet Forgiveness.
Sweet Forgiveness.

credits

from Maidens Rock, released April 8, 2020
Lead vocals by Laura Gregory. 
Background vocals by Laura Gregory.  

Words and Notes by Dan McLaughlin. 
Additional lyrics by Margit Elland Schmitt. 

Musical tracks arranged and recorded by Premier Tracks (New York, NY).
Vocal tracks recorded and mixed by James Wood at Live Oak Studio (Berkeley, CA), February, March, 2020.

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