Elements (Vinyl Version)

There is a daily dissolve

Between dark and light

Between heaven and hell

There is a razor sharp edge

This is stretched out

A ghostly horizon line

I swear there is sound here…

Have you seen the ravine?

Down by the waterfall

What they've done so obscene

They've built a concrete wall

Oh how could they?

An oasis of spiritual healing

To take it away

The cicadas and tress

In a soothing call

Let your skin feel the breeze

Under the waterfall

Oh without care

Let the pleasure of healing water

Fall through your hair

Oh I can't remember

The taste of pure spring rain before the wall

Oh do you remember?

Making love under the waterfall

Do you remember?

Did you see the ravine?

Well it's dried up now

Not a path to be seen

To get around somehow

Oh such a shame

That our natural spiritual water

Lost to flames

Oh I can't remember

The changes that we wrote before the fall

I can't remember

…Can't remember

My roots are rotting

Cut me away from them

Or rip me out like a weed

A boulder in motion stays in motion

Perpetually turning like the waves of the ocean

The hands of the artist have been worked to the bone

With nothing to show for when he's sent back home

The power to raise a majestic mountain

Is now just a tool for city construction

Its beauty is lost in the machine

Constant production destroys the serene

The earth keeps moving

The world keeps turning

No time at all for reflection

The earth keeps moving

It won't stop spinning

And we enter a new great depression

Bending a boulder to their will

Day after day down and uphill

Time slips away back starts to break

And thrown to the curb like the rest of the waste

The earth keeps moving

The world keeps turning

No time at all for reflection

The earth keeps moving

It won't stop spinning

And we enter a new great depression

And you pray for the rain

To wash it all away

All that nightmarish pain

But water won't do it

You've got to work through it

The earth keeps moving

The world keeps turning

No time at all for reflection

The earth keeps moving

It won't stop spinning

Earth keeps moving

World keeps turning

Earth keeps moving

World keeps turning

Earth keeps moving

World keeps turning

Earth keeps moving

World keeps turning

Earth keeps moving

World keeps turning

My lonely life

Is burning down

Burning down

Burning up

Burning down

Birthright in fire

Burned down in a hole

Tell me something I didn't already know

If you think that the flames are dying down

You better look out the window

Gunned down in a blaze

To make you wish you were living in outer space

Like a mass of gas in a purple haze

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our burning desire

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our birthright in fire

All 'round nowhere to run

Paranoia terrifies everyone

When the comet comes to claim the land

The war has just begun

Shout loud, is that the plan?

Even just one voice can make a stand

But when the smoke clears, lend a hand

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our burning desire

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our birthright in fire

On the southern coast of a Northern Temple

Red coats in a firing line

And they burn down the birds in a massacre

That'll stand the test of time

And the fire never dies

It just echoes like thunder

When the jury says not guilty

Assassins walk away with murder

(The Earth keeps moving

The world keep turning)

No time at all for reflection

(The Earth keeps moving

It won't stop spinning)

Burned down in fire

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our burning desire

We're burning up

As they're burning down

Our birthright in fire

Burning up

Burning down

Birthright in fire

Burning up

Burning up

Burning up

Burning up

Pacific breeze awakens us

Curled up by a blazing fire

When the wheels grind to an end

And the silos eclipse the sun

And blue spirits drift in the wind

Get a whiff of fresh air in your lungs

You just stare to the trees as you're breathing

Down a winding Rhode Island lane

And the clock on the barn is deceiving

Cause the air doesn't care for the time

All your steam will evaporate

To the clear blue morning fog

Look to that sky and aspirate

The cool... cool... air

So walk along the lakeshore

Where the road is covered in snow

Pass that sign that says "Join the Earth Corp"

To the pines all lined in a row

At this time let your mind wander

You've been stressing for far too long

At this time there's no trace of thunder

Keep your eye to the sky and walk on

All your steam will evaporate

To the clear blue morning fog

Look to the sky and aspirate

The cool... cool... air

You've got the weight of the earth on your shoulder

Everyday the fire grows

Wish your chi could flow like water

If you only knew which way the wind blows

There's no owl who'll howl you the answer

There's no creed to lead you home

No sifu can teach you to spire

Piece of mind... you must find... on your own

Father all your steam will evaporate

To the clear blue morning fog

Look to the sky and aspirate

The cool... cool... air

Now there is only

The gentle breeze

Where the surf and sand

Fight for command

Waiting with me patiently

For our glorious sunset