The cross and the crucible

A man walks in his neighbours house says what can I do? My fathers' cousins' wife says I must kill you There is a debt of honour and it must be paid by you Though how it came to happen I can't tell...

You open a window to my soul You open a channel through my heart The sun is sinkong through the sea My life has gone back to the start I see my face in yours I see my smile in your eyes So now the...

Take an act of greed and a tortured soul Place them together in the crucible Take two men of different faith And a scrap of earth they call their place War is mixture you now create From this extract...

In the beginning there was darkness And in the darkness there was fear And fear gave birth to God Whose rule was harsh but clear But reason led to questioning and God became a man He retreated to the...

We live we love we laugh we cry We dream we build we learn we die Live Die We talk we scream we fight we're sly We maim we kill we don't care why Live Die Hear the screaming Watch them weeping Read...

A circle of stones to capture the sun-god We call him to earth to banish the cold The blood of our children will safeguard the harvest We willingly give all we have in the hope of his love For the...

Geometric mountains rise in the biblical sky They measure the miles to the moon The Dogon chart invisible stars in the African night A beacon flashes on Crawl out of the shadows into the light Pushing...

From a single point of light the universe began From a world of dinosaurs we reach the age of man Like a deadly virus spreading the world is overrun The gates of darkness open to the new millennium

We live we love we laugh we cry All in the twinkle of an eye We learn we build and then we're gone We leave the kids to carry on We're building a heavenly path - leading out of the dark Taking us home...