Lead me from tortured dreams Childhood themes of nights alone Wipe away endless years Childhood tears as dry as stone From seeds of confusion Illusions dark blossoms have grown Even now in furrows of sorrow The dance still is sung My life's course is guided Decided by limits drawn In charts of my past ways And pathways since I was born I carry the dust of a journey That cannot be shaken away It lives deep within me For I breathe it every day You and I are yesterday's answers The earth of the past came to flesh Eroded by Time's rivers To the shapes we now possess Come share of my breath and my substance And mingle our streams and our times In bright, infinite moments All our reasons are lost in our rhymes Come forth from love spire Born in life's fire Born in life's fire Come forth from love's spire In the burning, all are yearning For life to be And the pain must be gain New life Stirring salty streams And dark hidden seams Where the fossil sun gleams They were sent to the gates Ride the tides of fate Ride the tides of fate They were sent to the gates In the burning, all are yearning For life to be They were sent to the gates Ride the tides of fate Ride the tides of fate They were sent to the gates In the burning, all are yearning For life to be Oh, to be There's no end to my life No beginning to my death Death is life