[Verse 1]

God, King above all other gods

Lead us now, so we can walk wherein the prophets said that we would trod

Buddha, tell a sutra like a spell

Teach us well to answer silence with the calling of bells

Allah, bring us to a good alarm

Subjugate our wills to answer you like a mighty arm

[Verse 2]

Elohim is a pillar of light in the dark

And leading all his people to light

For he's the king of the fire

He brings the fire into everything that's living on Earth

In the Sun, in the stars

Take a spark of it deep within you

Put it to the test, it will do the rest, I confess

It will be like climbing up Mount Everest

I can't express the view from there

But it's for you to follow through

[Verse 3]

Lama, show the power's bright array

Bless the climb and settle peace upon the universe's dark display

And Jesus, remember every promise made

Present Yourself in the middle of the prayers that we made

Vishnu, preserve us all along the way

Keep us clear of the final thunderbolt of the judgement day

Hear me and hear what I, what I ask for today, Fathers

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]

Way off at the far leftern shelf of the world

Up in a house right on the edge of everything

Where the time is tumbling in a vortex

The nexus of timetable tides

In the final lighthouse at shining Earth's ending

At the spinning of the finishing of sweeping time

Driving silence like a stampeding careening wash in charging advance

Digging the sound of passing everything away into the secret of eternity's pivot dance

Breaking down, crashing doorways

Bashing through dream place

Smash, unlash, efface

Everything goes to the open mouth of Kali Ma

Where the vault of Heaven opens

[Verse 5]

A witness as lonely as forgotten tears

Keeps up a vigil watching all, even light go out

One witness, one child digging the slaving wheel of meat

Spitting out, taking up everything by the roots

Pulling out the lot of what has passed into the past like a dream

She knows what is gone, gone over

Everyone that is done and unbegun

And starting from the super microcosmic

No bug all the way to super huge galactic suns

And she knows the beginning is coming in the sweep at the end of all

Even gods have passed over, away

Then one day, the shadow of a priest on the horizon appeared

He wasn't taken up into the swirling

He walked with purpose

All the while digging his heels into the bedrock like a man

But as he came into view, the witness saw

His eyes were crying

Tears like blood fell to earth

As he watched Heaven disappear in the void

Up the drain into the paraboloid

Realizing it all, everything, everywhere, into his eyes

Seeing that all he had beloved went out of itself and away

Here in this last ever surge of a day

Tearing all meaning away

And to the witness's indifference, he had this to say

[Verse 6]

"I know about birth, I know about death

And how the light goes out of men

The life departing, powerless, giving it up

But in the vast indifference, I invent a deeper meaning

I'm the one who will say

'Use the will every day or go mad trying'

Go to war against the impotent side of living

Use every power you're given to stand and act like a man

And pray every day to every God

Strike the bowl of Heaven and the ringing will become a law

Build bridges where you need to go

Bring the fire of enlightenment here to life below

Speak mercy to the things you meet

Listen up to hear the whispering of the blood you bleed

Stay awake, no mistake

Dance the dream awake and awake"

[Outro]

For the love, for the love

Love, love, love, love