Genesis Lyrics - Razia's Shadow: A Musical - Forgive Durden

This is the beginning and the end 

The rise and the fall 

Our gait will begin its saunter at the source 

When the infant learns to crawl 

Place your hands on mine, untie your mind 

Let your bloated brain balloon and float away 

Wet the end of the thread 

Thimble upon your index 

Set the needle on its path 

Bobbing up and down and past 

Tears and seams all turn to one 

With every stitch and each spool spun 

Feed the line through its eye 

Draw it from the other side 

Pull the strand to satisfy 

The need to compose 

The genetic map 

The scientific gap 

The detailed blueprints 

Swept away under carpets 

All we did was thread the eye 

Of the silver splinter 

We simply planted the seed 

And nursed it through winter 

The rest is up to you 

To do with what you'll do 

To learn and love and laugh 

Until the cycle circle's back 

I'll just separate, weigh anchor, disengage 

Divide and disappear and see you in the mirror 

(Oh, I'm, oh, I'm a slave to the night) 

O the scientist was the author and the architect 

The angels were his ink slingers 

His actors and actresses 

His two purest talents were Ahrima and Nidria 

Two destined hearts bound by the same idea 

The unrelenting constancy of love and hope 

Can rescue and restore you from any scope 

In her, Ahrima confided his curbing frustration 

His gifts had been exhausted 

Oh, how they'd misused them 

She averted his passion and eased his blood 

And so he confessed it to her 

(A slave to your eyes) 

He had fallen in love