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The Beast Within

from Peace Freedom Sanity Serenity by Mike Birch

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Cruel desire, internal rage drives the need
Uncertain emotions, don’t care where they lead
Forgotten learnings, no common sense
Animal instinct rules over intelligence
The dreams and visions, the call of a higher place
Running, thinking no longer part of the human race
Endless pursuit, don’t know if you’re chaser or chased
Can’t remember the look of a friendly face

The beast within us must be contained
The anger and violence kept under chain
Human compassion can’t take the strain
Beat the beast down is all that remains

Unending anger, a nagging pull down
Helpless feeling, a whimpering sound
A whispered plea for help from above
Hopeless resolution from a world without love
The feeling of freedom when at last we can see
Clarified vision no longer looking blindly
Taking it slowly, smalls steps, so carefully
Wondering thoughts, to be suddenly free

The beast within us must be contained
The anger and violence kept under chain
Human compassion can’t take the strain
Beat the beast down is all that remains

Hear the sire song’s call
It speaks to us all
Thick or thin
It’s the beast within

Middle of the night
A place without light
Purity or sin
It’s the beast within

Through the lust and the rage
Escape from the cage
Friend or kin
It’s the beast within

Impossible to resist
Like a stranger’s kiss
Heads will spin
It’s the beast within

Thick or thin, it’s the beast within
Purity or sin, it’s the beast within
Friend or kin, it’s the beast within
Your head will spin, it’s the beast within

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from Peace Freedom Sanity Serenity, released August 2, 2013

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Mike Birch Methuen, Massachusetts

For Mike, it all started on a Sunday night in 1964 ... February 9 ... the Beatles took the stage on the Ed Sullivan show and while the girls in the audience screamed, his parents and grandparents exclaimed about the "long hairs", a 7-year-old boy thought, 'I'm going to learn to play the guitar one day!' ... more

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