Crescent

Fertile crescent of fire and earth

Traded for knowledge, what was it worth?

Yesterday's desires are stronger today.

We eat our fill but hungry we stay.

Like the hips of the snake emptied

I am of reasons to dance on my lover's like sand

That slips through my fingers without a trace

That something sacred slept in this place

Steep the last steps from nature to man

The altar, the fiddle, and a little girl's dance

She moves through the hills and sings to the night

Of eden and serpents and dizzying heights

Each morning she wakens and knows she won't end

A new creature rises against one that descends

We're on our own again, my friend

The vanguard's been derailed

They’ll hang me next to you, my friend

As they follow in our trail

Too late we see the broken heart

Is the seed of the broken state

Remember me in paradise

Tell them i couldn't wait

Four rivers flow past the beaks and the jaws

Anarchy, judgment, mercy, and law

New cities rise upon history's dust

Cultures revolve between wonder and lust

Guillotine blades release peasants and slaves

Peasants turn princes and chain them again

The rivers flow on, they join and they grow

Mixing life and death into all that we know

A future's on its way, my friend

Where hate will be like gills

Gills that cannot breathe, my friend

In sharp air of the hills.

We saw so clear the rights of all

The path was the mistake.

The vanguard is forgiveness

The light for which we ache.