William Butler
William Butler
Multi-instrumentalist for the band Arcade Fire who plays bass, synth, guitar, and percussion. He has also worked on movie soundtracks, like the one for Her.
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth6 October 1982
dreams softly spread tread
I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
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TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.
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We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
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The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the
wits
Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?
And say my glory was I had such friends.
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.
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You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?
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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
education filling lighting
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.