From mud and bone From whip and stone Moulded, persuaded Bought and sold From water and grain From threat and pain Broken, rebuilt Master and slave Sculpt me Transform me Clay shaper Break me Bleed me Plied in your grey hands Through hope and cheer Through dread and fear Governed, capricious Taught and trained Through diminished expectations Under crumbling foundations Saviour and captor Bound and free Sculpt me Transform me Clay shaper Break me Bleed me Plied in your grey hands To wealth and land To blindness in man Innocence imprisoned Corruption revered To towers of stone To mountains of bone Leeching the blood And filling your grail In mud and bone Redemption, consecration In subservient fiction Hope, addiction In chaos and fear of all disaster Bringing light to serve as your master Sculpt me Transform me Clay shaper Break me Bleed me Plied in your grey hands