Beast and Angel In the Flame

Beast and Angel in the Flame It will take more than religion to save you More than the word of God to ignite you More than thought to give you direction More than study to give you conviction And faith in the mountain will not help you Belief in a path cannot guide you Your moral decisions will only drown you Until you wake up When nothing but your own mirror calls you And nothing but your own heart inflames you All the passion in the world Will remain nothing more than a shadow When one day realization beckons you With its delicate finger of remembrance Makes you kneel at the foot of acceptance And kiss the feet of who you are When the doors of your judgment crumble before the power of your desire All the boundaries you have set Will vanish in the needing want of fire You will stand naked before another person All your heart, your body, your spirit left; open When gratitude and release floods every vein Just to know you are human; again All the same, all the same; we are all the same In pleasure and in pain We are all the same Beast and Angel in the flame And when life washes through you In pain and pleasure for you When you stand on this brink and it encompasses you In a single name Then lift your head in surrender Raise your eyes in strength All that you are in one second remember Without you I am nothing And I stand before you with belief I hold you bound with a power higher than common love Naked Drawn to each other by a force greater than the both of us And the vicious and the crack where the light pours in And the supplicant and in the wine taste of beyond relief I am saved By the you beyond love It will take more than a moral to save you More than the words of a poet to ignite you More than institution to give you direction More than faith to give you religion And trust in the law will not help you Belief in justice will not lead you Such moral decisions will only befool you Until you wake up When nothing but your own mirror calls you And nothing but your own heart inflames you All the passion in the world Will remain nothing more than an unknown shadow All the same, all the same; we are all the same In pleasure and in pain We are all the same Angel and Beast in the flame