In my darkest year in the fourth month on the fifth day
In exile by the sea a vision came to me
The heavens opened up and the word of God was spoken
A windstorm from the North
A vast cloud with flashing lightning
The center burned like glowing metal
In the fire was life, there I saw a creature
Its faces looked like this
A lion a man an ox an eagle
I swear they touched each other
As I turned around to run
The sound of rushing waters
Dear God the heathen have come
That which is light in me darken
That which is pure corrupt
Two thousand years of numbness and vanity
The hand outstretched below
Can you hear the sound of me singing to light the fire in your eyes
Can the torn and bloody victim love the jaws that rend him
Two thousand years of numbness and vanity
Cannot crush us follow me straight through death's door
