Got one eye on the water, Got fire on my breath

Gonna look in the mirror, gonna scare me half to death

What I don’t know…  Won’t let me go.

Upstairs I’m a free man, below I’m a slave

See visions of the future, see dreams of the grave

What I don’t know…  Won’t let me go.

And I said hey there sister, what have you seen

What lives in your nightmares, what places have you been

I know you’ve been out there, I know you’ve been around

And it’s a long and lonely story from the sky

To the cold, hard ground

It’s like rough wood and metal, you’ve got to bend it to your need

It’s elemental, and at the bottom there’s nothing but heat

Like it’s always been

You’ve got to take these broken pieces, lay them out where you can see

Won’t do no good hiding, you’ve got to work this assembly, got a one step plan

Gonna make it stand

And I said hey there sister, what have you seen

What lives in your nightmares, what places have you been

I know you’ve been out there, I know you’ve been around

And it’s a long and lonely story, from the sky

To the cold, hard ground

No shortcut, no low road, no new technology

Cut it off now, full stop, get the true word, you’ll see

Get the mother, the matrix, the true original

Tear it all down to the dirt floor

And build it better than before

Now here we go

Forget about your safety, put your hands around its neck

Stare down into the depths and hear your own soul echo back

Don’t turn away…  don’t let it go

Call it from the farthest reaches, no escape and no retreat

You’ve got to wrestle with it, own it, put it on for all to see

Go on, let it show…  don’t say no

And I said hey there sister, where are you from

You know that in the end we all go back to where we’ve come

For all your revelations, you’ve got just one lesson left

Sister every resurrection…  requires a death.

©2008 Goosafroose Publishing (ASCAP)

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