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We were born to live, not just survive
Though the road be long and the river wide
Though the seasons change and the willows bend
Though some dreams break, some others mend
We were born to give and born to take
To win and lose and to celebrate
We were born to know and born to muse
To unfold our hearts, take a chance and choose
We were born to love though we feel the thorn
When a ship sets sail to return no more
Though a door be closed and we feel the pain
To chance it all and to love again
We were born to reach, to seek what's true
To surrender all, to make each day new
We were born to laugh and born to cry
To rejoice and grieve, just be be alive
We were born to hope and to know despair
And to stand alone when there's noone there
We were born to trust and to understand
That in every heart there's an outstretched hand
We were born to live, to be right and wrong
To be false and true, to be weak and strong
We were born to live, to break down the walls
And to know that life is to taste it all
I serve an unknown master
In whom I don't believe
I wear a flaming eight fold wheel
Branded on my sleeve
I bow before a hidden throne
I never will perceive
I seek to answer questions
Which I cannot conceive
I follow after something
That I have never seen
I hear a distant shadow voice
Not knowing where it leads
I fashion my reality
From nothing but a dream
The never ending search
To reach the golden mean
And I could easily fall from grace
And another would take my place
For the chance to behold your face
And the days of my life are but grains of sand
As they fall through your open hand
At the call of the wind's command
Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say
They fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way
To read between the lines, by following the signs
That can lead to you
All that I ask is show me how to follow you and I'll obey
Teach me how to reach you I can't find my way
Let me see the light
Let me be the light
As the sun turns slowly around the sky
Till the shadow of night is high
The eagle will learn to fly
And the days of his life are but grains of sand
As they fall through my open hand
And vanish upon the land
Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say
They fall upon the ears of us who don't know the way
To read between the lines, by following the signs
That can lead to you
But show me how to follow you and I'll obey
Teach me how to reach you I can't find my way
Let me see the light
Let me be the light
And so, with no warning, no last goodbye
In the dawn of the morning sky
The eagle will rise again
He lived in a cave by a clear water stream
He communed all his dreams to the rain
He tamed the falcon, the white spotted fawn
Disarming all seekers who came
His name is a legend, and stories are told
Of a wizard whose heart was on fire
He desired to be a sign
That life is not confined by time
He gleaned all his secrets from crystalline pools
Of the power of fools to deceive
Relieved of the burden of earthly delights
Wisdom was freed
He seized in his hand the lightning that strikes
The gods blazed out through his eyes
He was wise, he was feared
And when he spoke mysteries appeared
Though all the things he fashioned
Have faded with his will
The atmosphere of Merlin
Lingers somewhere in us still
For all the things he conjured up
Out of smoke and wind and strife
His greatest creation
Was the magic, the wonder of his life
Merlin...
He conjured a fog that the army might pass
He turned a young boy to a king
He struck with his staff on the barren earth
You could hear the thunder ring
He peeled off illusion, he cut to the bone
As a sword cuts through the shield
Yet he could yield to an inner voice
That gives a man his freedom of choice
Though all the things he fashioned
Have faded with his will
The atmosphere of Merlin
Lingers somewhere in us still
For all the things he conjured up
Out of smoke and wind and strife
His greatest creation
Was the wonder and the magic of his life
Merlin...
Lapus Lazuli on every finger
Wrists wrapped in silver and gold
You wear your success like some kind of armour
As if it could keep out the cold
An air of indifference completes the disguise
You offer your hand while so carefully avoiding my eyes
Are you lonely in there, do you want to come out
Do you fear you have nothing to say
Do you watch from the curb as the world passes by
Afraid you might get in its way
Are you lonely in there
Are you lonely in there
Come out to play
Even in a crowd, still you are a stranger
Somehow you're always alone
And any who come seeking your favour
Must chisel their way in through stone
It's your business to know all the right things to say
Yet the sigh in your silence
Well, somehow it gives you away
Are you lonely in there, do you want to come out
Do you feel you have nothing to say
Do you watch from the curb as the world passes by
Afraid you might get in its way
Are you lonely in there
Are you lonely in there
Come out to play
The jester juggles for the meaning
Hops through hoops to find the core
He pours himself into the river
Then he drinks himself back from silver jars
The jester jumps and jingles pennies
Pleasures kings with the poems he brings
That sing the rhyme of ancient wisdoms
Hovering on dragon's wings
He goes by the name of God and the devil
By the name of the sinner and saint
He goes by the name of truth and corruption
By the name of what is and what ain't
He goes by the name of joy and of sorrow
By the name of the bitter and sweet
And all through the house his voice echoes simple
To the tapping of his nimble feet
The jester jumbles sense and reason
Tossing doves most everywhere
Knowing all to be illusion
Fluttering upon the air
The jester jostles through the kingdom
Love's favourite fool in finery
He speaks the words we fear to utter
And paints our own hearts for us to see
He goes by the name of God and the devil
By the name of the sinner and saint
He goes by the name of truth and corruption
By the name of what is and what ain't
He goes by the name of joy and of sorrow
By the name of the bitter and sweet
And all through the house his voice echoes simple
To the tapping of his nimble feet
Night is at the doorway
Darkness steals into the room
The moon casts memories of shadows
Clear across the gloom
I dip my spoon in silver streams
To catch the passing memories
Dreams awake and dreams depart
They vanish in a haze
Our days are naught but stepping stones
Across a moonlit maze
Of galaxies we wandered through
You and I in search of truth
Goodbye my love
We travelled hard
We travelled far, my love
While we were reaching for a star
We lost the joy of who we are
And you are my love
You are my father and my son, my love
You are a brother to my dreams
You are my mirror so it seems
Go far, my love
And as you wander through life's spell
Remember someone loves you well
Silent thoughts of quiet loss
The cost of loves' dismay
We played upon some temple gong
Now the echoes ebb away
They echo on into the stars
The song goes on and so will ours
So will ours, so will ours
Love once born may suffer wounds
But never will it die
We've tied ourselves by golden threads
To somewhere deep inside
We bind the scars, we move apart
Threads expanding heart to heart
Goodbye my love
We travelled hard
We travelled far, my love
While we were reaching for a star
We lost the joy of who we are
And you are my love
You are my father and my son, my love
You are a brother to my dreams
You are my mirror so it seems
Go far, my love
And as you wander through life's spell
Remember someone loves you well
I have haunted the hills for moonlit traces
Silent wanderers, kinsmen of my soul.
I have lonewolf beckoned upon the farthest star,
Wailed my throat into a siren's call
Beckoned creation to smite me dead
Or awaken me from slumber.
Under my foot the rock is cold
But in my chest the best of creation hovers
Ablaze like a thousand centuries of suns
I am compressed into one small marble of stillness.
I will not perish from the cold.
I am older than starlight and at peace with time.
The rhyme of the ancients flows in my veins
And pain and sorrow have no power over me.
Down in the silence when the darkness falls
And the lone wolf howls near the garden wall
An old man sits, from his throat he calls
The companion
Shadows flicker from the breathless past
The spell is weaved and the dye is cast
He knows in his heart the time won't last
With the companion
Soft as the dew on the moonlit lawn
The murmur of the lake and the night birds' song
No footprint sounds yet he knows he's drawn
The companion
Oh, he comes and goes
He'll come again, you'll know not when
For black as coal his hollow eyes
Will pierce your soul, crack your disguise
And even then you'll not believe
You'll turn away, refuse to play
With the companion
The echo of a skip of a rock on a lake
The beating of a heart that's about to break
The gift was given but he could not take
From the companion
So when magic stalks on a moonlit night
Bow not your head to the inner fright
But turn your face and seek the light
Of the companion
I have one longing only
To taste it all
Before the reaper taps silent
At the temple of my brain
I want to claim all experience for mine
All of it
Before my time is through
In the morning when we rise
To the sound of something moving
Beneath the sea
And the smell of salt sea air
And the sense that someone's calling
From over there
Yet all the while the salmon
Must fight to swim his way back home
Up the stream
Yet all the dreams and sorrows of my days
Will never pale my love
In the evening when we rest
As the cool of shadows reach out
Across the sand
In the land of abandoned dreams
There's a sense that what you see
Isn't all it seems
Yet all the while the serpent
Must fight to shed its skin and leave it behind
Yet all the finds and losses of my days
Will never pale my love
For like the morning glory
Each truth is born to fade
In shades of blue and scarlet
The trumpets of decay
The rays of morning sadness
Wither blossoms from the vine
As time ascribes its symphony of lies
Yet all the while the phoenix
To be reborn must burn all alone
Yet all the deaths and ashes of my days
Will never pale my love