Stitches - The Magic Lantern

We’re all a stitch

Cut from the same thread

The thread weaves back through time

An umbilical line

From a fireside 400, 000 years ago

To all those who’ll be born tomorrow

And the needle’s eye’s no coincidence

And each stitch is blind to its consequence

Don’t let the fire go out

Don’t let the fire go out

Let it burn!

We’re all a square of earth

Fertile with dreams and desires

And to dust we’ll all return

It’s a hard lesson to learn

That youth can’t conceive of its' ending

Until the back like the branch starts bending

Then a weariness falls without a sound

And if heaven exists it’s in the ground

So stick your hands deep in the soil

The earthworm’s a marvel of industry and toil

Feel the earth!

We’re all pure energy

That can’t be created or destroyed

We just change from form to form

An electrical storm

That crackles with all the events of our lives

And from birth to death a spark survives

So soon enough we’ll meet the ground as lightening

To fire another day as it’s brightening

You did your best right to the end

Turned the machines off and let the breath expend

And that was love