Passage of Time

Fly soul, for your body must die
 Fly soul, for your body must die
 Let the spirit wake us
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 But for those who seek eternity
 For those who yearn prosperity
 From this single act of sanity
 Will raise you far above humanity
 Oh, willin' host who does not know
 The full desire of this prisoner
 Walk where angels fear to go
 Thou shalt soon embrace the reckoner
 Thy halo of glory, hope's true gage
 May prove to be an evil pilgrimage
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 Something had happened beyond her control
 A moment of madness unfettered a soul
 That would relish a freedom denied once before
 By a desperate nation with its back to the wall
 Within a split second of reading this text
 The spirit was free and had fled from its nest
 It was eager to grow from this sudden reprieve
 And thus in the woman a life was conceived
 From the very beginning, the world was misled
 As a baby was born in a monastery bed
 The miracle happening here on this Earth
 Was perceived as a glorious new virgin birth
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 From the moment in time that baby was born
 The sun did now rise on a new crimson dawn
 And the creature just bided its time undiscovered
 So safe in the cradlin' arms of the mother
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 But for those who seek eternity
 For those who yearn prosperity
 From this single act of sanity
 Will raise you far above humanity