Time, As a Symptom

Lyrics for Time, As a Symptom

Time passed hard, And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do. But she forgot, The moment she saw you. So it would seem to be true: When cruel birth debases, we forget. When cruel death debases, We believe it erases all the rest That precedes. But stand brave, life-liver, Bleeding out your days In the river of time. Stand brave: Time moves both ways, In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life; The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life. The moment of your greatest joy sustains: 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). Hardly seen, hardly felt– Deep down where your fight is waiting, Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading: Joy of life. Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it; Bow like the field when the combs through it: Joy of life. And every little gust that chances through Will dance in the dust of me and you, With joy-of-life. And in our perfect secret-keeping: 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 shore, a tide, unmoored–a sight, abroad: 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