The hardest part is to know That you will always be Completely alone, locked up inside yourself The next-hardest thing is to understand That it is true For your loved ones too Birth and Death are sisters, I think And life is when they're holding hands And they live and they play in me And they weep and they die with me You hold my hand but we're so far Hidden away in some cerebral cell Where the space between the stars Are even greater than The one in the black, Black sky Birth and Death are sisters, I think And life is when they are holding hands And they live and they play in me And they weep and they die with me But Mother Nothing Calls her daughters back home And Father Silence Takes his children home The double helix in me A coiling snake A staircase of time The history of mine And they live and they play in me And they weep and they die with me But Mother Nothing Calls her Daughters back home And Father Silence Takes his children home But Mother Nothing Calls her Daughters back home And Father Silence takes his children home