THE BODY LYRICS

1. The Wheel Weaves As The Wheel Wills

Life has meaning. Pain has meaning. Through stripes and shame; through tears and blood; through doubts and fears, and all that makes the difference: I see an end.

2. Manifest Alchemy

Wandering steps, obedient to high thoughts. Awful ruins of the days of old. Progeny enslaved to all its authors' flaws. Are we but warped extensions? We have the power to begin again, untarnished world at hand. Recognize the open horizon, a consciousness that reaches all. We have opened the secret passage into the dream that never ends, a new reality of our own creation, an empire without end. Released from guilt, released from pain, released from love, released from trust: We are anointed in the sacred power; we are enshrined in ourselves.

3. In Meetings Hearts Beat Closer

Born from a dream to create a reality, we are absolved of effete morality. And through deliberate transgression is hallowed essence revealed. The destruction of purity, the destruction of worthlessness, though mighty and glorious and terrible, is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of the Will. It is written in the Book of the Law that this deep, mysterious secret is a sacrament of the Will, and to profane it is the greatest offense. The shocking evils which we all deplore are principally due to the perversions produced by suppressions. Ennobling presence exposes my weakness. And we expire in boundless bliss. All and None in One.

4. Coward

[originally by Vic Chesnutt]

The courage of the coward is greater than all others. A scaredy cat'll scratch you if you back him in a corner. But I am a coward. Courage born of despair and impotence. Submissive dogs can lash out in fear and be very, very dangerous. But I am a coward.





THE BODY LYRICS