The rhythm of life   Heaven withstanding and smiling we're all swept away   The rhythm of life   Is not so demanding as some caught in narrows would say      Fragile as ships as we pass through Gibraltar   The sirens have long given way   Dark as the murky graveyard of sailors   Whispering secrets told in the crashing waves      The beating of hearts   Set walls to trembling the power of silence persuades   The stumbling feet   Stagger predestined we all end up wild eyed and crazed      And from the madness most jaded of vision   Reflections of horror invade   Running and falling relinquish your venom   The antidote surely will cause your affliction to fade      How little we know of what we are blessed with   Our shimmering island it turns   How little we look at what we see clearly   Of tragedy's lessons not learned      Sleeping through classes we'll make it up later   There's still so much time left to go   Misguided roses we bloom in October   Emerging triumphant in time for the season's first snow