Time As A Symptom

verse 1 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 verse 2 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 Bridge 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) Coda 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 wind 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 Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song: 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-