Michael Joseph Jackson (Rip)

Refrain Wake me from my livid dream, stir my soul So spirit may bring flesh to sense again Transport me to another time, this pain Will cease in that climate where we are whole There the lights are bright upon the stage And death is banished from youth and from age Truth alone endures asleep or awake, truth Alone will never change, love is a fruit Of enduring truth, and absence is pain Telling us the giddy earth is so vain. Why, giddy earth, did you take him away? Is your coffer of dust famished for clay? His immatured manhood pure art became His unbound spirit was the candle'sflame O giddy earth, you blew him out, no more This child, to moonwalk your flesh gritting shore He and Ben thought they would call you their own A promised to be there when I'm alone. Who shall write from the lonely tree for him Who shall heal the world's pride for us like him Who shall dance to the edge of oneness still O truth endure ... we are a fabled will Farewell Michael, great metaphor of time In all your gift the race was more sublime And we pray you will not fade from truth, we Celebrate your art, love your memory. We celebrate the joy in mystery lost O art sublime tolls such a human cost Farewell unfading genius and friend Farewell guiding light none could comprehend.