[Verse 1]

I touch the beginning

Animating animals and tree Gods

Scratching out legends in cave walls

The days pour down into nights as we watched

We mapped stars with peaks, we fought beasts

We caught food for the feast

And we walked to a breast to receive the bound wheat

The grass, black and strange

As we razed plains to ash

We laid claims, exchanged grains, and made pacts

And we clashed, and we strained, and the rains lashed

The young maids were brave, but they were made to lay flat

The old ways were too ingrained to make the reins snap

We laid traps

We gave our names back to the Saints

We sang out thanks and complaints

We burned fat, arranged bones into flames

Each bird a great catch

Our songs were spells, and our spells were plain facts

[Verse 2]

She laid down in the road where the people go by

And declared herself willing to try

I laid down beside her

But all I could see were the feet as they walked over me

That's when she told me, "I was holy elixir"

She said "I thought I knew the world, but it was only a picture"

She said "We’re all written in the holiest scripture

It's just we're living in this time that says no inhibitions

Get yours, keep going the distance, no limits

And don’t bother protesting because nobody listens

Besides, all your solutions dissolve under scrutiny

And you can't stand a note of derision

Instead, seek approval to justify your existence

Have opinions, but have no resolve or conviction

Just keep your head down

Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions

Routine is healthy, ignore the affliction

The cost to the soul and the constant constriction

Don't consider too closely, have no intermission

Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition

Most of us manage, what makes you so different?

Now, you seem a bright spark

Go ahead, take the road with the pilgrims

Head for the temples of democracy

Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope

But don't pay attention to what's hanging from the rope"

She said, "Decode the language, unfold the symbols

I'm told disciples got lost in the hillside

Following intellect, they let go of wisdom

And now they'll tell you the soul's a closed system

They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition

And now what they hold in their fist has become all that there is

But total existence needs meaning and myth

Many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist

Your loneliness is the symptom, not the sickness"

[Verse 3]

The moment her lips said "peace," my peace melted

I became a memory, I felt myself peel

I was atoms, Magnesium, Calcium

I was real

She said, "We are born of collision

We are divisions of a bigger vision

And yet, we run around like hamsters

Spinning the wheel

Spinning the wheel

Spinning the wheel"

[Verse 4]

I was on my knees then, begging for pardon

I was old and clothed in white garments

In a vast red desert where the rocks were dark blue and varnished

And a voice said, "This is the garden

Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest"

[Verse 5]

I came to under a domed roof

The light was cold and clear and fragmented

There was people, moving, I watched them

I saw a muscle of school girls performing

I saw the ticket woman massaging the small of her back

And a young gent, neat as a crease in his work clothes

And the light, light as breath on the dirty, old track