• It Is Done — SingerSongwriter808

It Is Done

Music, 1976 • Lyrics, 1991

When the fire
Turns to stone
Dream turns to nightmares
A chilling cancer grows

The mask, black and empty
Cuts the strings
The tulku child holds a vajra sceptre
Turns and leaves

When shattered bone and broken glass
Steal the stage
The Earth erupts, the center gives
Overwhelmed by rage (and pain)

Floating in a landscape
Of disembodied eyes and teeth
Blood in the mountains
Blood in the deep

A crippled man, a wounded eagle
A starving orphan cries
The silver dolphin caught within the fisher's nets
Screams and dies

Running from a dagger in the hand of a ghost
Hiding in the night
Leaping from the shadows demons grab me by the throat
And hold me tight

Crucified a woman breathes her last alone and scared
And quickly quits the scene
Set upon a course of paranoia, fear and anger
Drowing in the sea

Going down...
Going down...

Lost in the forest
Caught in a poinsoned trap
Reaching out, reaching skyward
Cut and severed hands

A door in the distance
I can see it there across the fire
White robed teachers chanting the cosmos
Dreaming all of time

Awakened to the possibilities I see before me
I sing my life
Shouting out the Dark Lord, the masked tormentor
Liberating cries
Falling through the mirror there's no ground I see before me
Only empty space
Weightless in infinity the children there before me
See me claim my grace

It is mine...
It is mine...

Morning breaks
Across the land
The flesh of a fallen demon
Rotting in the sand

A black mask, the Devil's mask
Shattered on the rocks
The blood of an angry demigod
A ghostly presence caught

Dancing on the battlefield the ecstasy of confrontation
Lifts me up
Living for the moment - for the future — creativity
Fills my cup (overflowing)
Dancing arm in arm with the child with the vajra sceptre
in his hands (he is me)
Pieces fit together as the final act of winter
Seals the plan

It is done...
It is done...
It is done...
It is done...