I shut my eyes to see the distant years

Before I was before the first breath

To days when we walked in the brilliant light

Before the fall before first death



I dare not look too long?a secret guarded well

I've never seen this place but been here many times

I know here I belong but danger here does dwell

An Old Familiar Face a million mirrored lines



Swimming, Dimming, Shadows, Fear Grows

Drowning, Crowning, Dark Skies, Birth Cries



We weren't meant to see

I wasn't meant to see the inner weave of me

But deep within the dark

Sometimes we catch a spark



A silver glow as warm as angels

Would fill out souls like mead from Eden

And in this dream I'm so close yet



To see it's not a dream my eyes begin to burn

A moth drawn to the flame to ashes add a speck

The memories of all who here have had their turn

In strobes and strokes and strikes like noose connects to neck



Swimming, Dimming, Shadows, Fear Grows

Drowning, Crowning, Dark Skies, Birth Cries



We weren't meant to see

But deep within the dark

Sometimes we catch a spark



A silver glow as old as angels

Would blind us all like snow from Everest

And in this dream I'm far too close



We weren't meant to see the inner weave of things



No, I can't tell you when we first met

Possibly before we were born

As fragments on a thread that binds us all

But hot or cold we touch

And black and white we touch

Man and woman touch

Spare and fire touch



And after all I'm not a snail at all

But an ember of a raging fire!



Hot or cold we touch

And black and white we touch

Man and woman touch

Spare and fire touch



Ember without name

Rising from the flame

Free from where I came

I've burned down history's stage

I've cooled through the age

I melt into the page



A voice calls through the haze

?You must rejoin the blaze!?



Dimming while swimming

This spark astride an uphill blast

And though an avalanche might fall

I must rejoin the blaze



Carried along on a song sung in fire

Float in the chords miss the words of the choir

Close to a name in the flame I've been drawn to

Tell me my name in the flame!

Tell me my name in the flame!

Tell me my Name in the Flame!