I have lived a thousand times, And died a thousand more With both pride and humility in turn. I have taken the mantle And scarred my flesh, And bore the weight of my astral lineage. I have passed across the expanse Of love's savage waste And I too have been martyred At the devil's door. I have known ecstatic glory And suffered trembling defeat. I have lavished in the grotto And perished on the slopes. Yet I remain embattled For I am no longer afraid. In the jaws of rapture. By the light of dawn. "So lives their life, So lives their death So live they still And yet they are dead."