Time passed hard
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
But she forgot
The moment she saw you
When cruel birth debases, we forget
When cruel death debases
We believe it erases all the rest
That precedes
verse 2
But stand brave, life-liver
Bleeding out your days
In the river of time
Time moves both ways
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Joy of life;
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Joy of life
Bridge
Not axe nor hammer
Tumor, tremor
Can take it away, and it remains
It remains
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Joy of life;
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Joy of life)
Coda
Hardly seen, hardly felt
Deep down where your fight is waiting
Joy of life
Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
Joy of life
And every little gust that chances through
Will dance in the dust of me and you
With joy-of-life
One ear of corn
In silent, reaping
Joy of life
A way a lone a last a loved a long
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-