Through falling years These failing times We forged in fear And blood-soaked rites In salt of tear, in age of line ♪ The cycle unending Beyond man and time My voice, reaching back Oh, children mine ♪ Surrounded by enemies You have sought me out in silence Throught the flesh, through concrete passage In the wisdom of bleak asylum I sing to you in your tongue In the language of ecstasies Of joys deeper than agonies The unjustified, beyond man and time This song ringing My voice reaching back Six thousand feet (oh, forged in fear) My voice reaching back (and blood soaked rites) Of rippling impulse (my voice, reaching back) True, real, raw hunger (my voice reaching back) My voice reaching back (beyond man and time) My voice reaching back (my voice reaching back) My voice reaching back