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The Serpent And The Fool

The Serpent And The Fool

To all who concede to be trapped in the conscious state.
Who cannot perceive beyond their own element
Who ostracize me for presenting the paradox
Oh Paraclete, do comfort me.

The serpent be wise but it only takes
A fool and his flute to deceive him, Unweave him from his basket of truth,
Mesmerized by the music of lies.

Don’t be ensnared or lured by society
Please don’t forget it was they who had stolen your dreams
As a child in exchange for the immaculate lie,
Like the time in your youth you’d see things in your room and cry out
Your mother rushed in, turned on the light.

(You're only dreaming, I don’t believe you)
Close your eyes it is all right
(I did not want you, I never loved you)
It’s only a dream, She’s teaching you how not to see.
(we never loved you, we did not want you)
Just like her society.

The institute of higher earning,
Seduced you from your path of learning
They say the soul is but a theory,
And now your bodies growing weary,
But now you’ve got no god to pray to,
For god is only human virtue
Astronomically projected,
Unreal for science can’t detect it.
Nor put it in an incubator,
A test tube or an oscillator,
Subject it to mere human scrutiny,
Can’t they see there are things bigger than you
And bigger than me.

All things that live desire a continuance
And all things that die desire a reverence
All souls contained have fear of the elements
And all souls released shall return
To the embodiment of all that is god
And all that is man, ascend, ascend, ascend.
To all that is god & all that is man.

Can’t they see the god that’s within
Is within the god that’s without?

all lyrics copyright 1994 Robert Damien Youth

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