Vanishing Lessons

Silently vanishing, then reappearing
 Slipping away for a while
 Start dematerializing before your eyes
 Always a step from our grasp
 At the turn of the century
 Lived a Mr. Houdini
 Shrouded in a mystery
 He fooled all humanity
 Why is it a mystery
 The very thing that seems to me
 Explains itself so easily
 The love of wealth brings misery
 Things we acquire means fuel for the fire
 The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn
 Things we acquire means fuel for the fire
 The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn
 Chinese water torture cell
 And metamorphosis
 Jail escapes, buried alive
 Walking through a solid wall
 Suicide among the rich
 Defies the laws of reason which
 Tells us those who have it all
 Must often answer to death's call
 Things we acquire means fuel for the fire
 The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn
 Dollars for happiness, that's what the world tells us
 Pour all yourself in the pursuit of wealth
 Things we acquire means fuel for the fire
 The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn
 Dollars for happiness, that's what the world tells us
 Pour all yourself in the pursuit of wealth
 "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless
 which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the
 utterly lost to whom life and death are equally jests,
 there are matters of which no jest can be made."
 (Quote from "The Masque Of The Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe)
 Ever since I was a boy
 I have always kept your laws
 Now I want to follow you
 Join you in your noble cause
 Jesus turned to him and said
 Sell all you have, give to the poor
 The rich young ruler hung his head
 Not to follow, walked instead