In a virgin world primeval A newborn bullcalf emerged Wondrous and celestial Three cranes to be its witness and droves Its honour mantled the face of the earth A blessing unleashed to the earth Unseathed the embodiment of life Tarvos the embodiment of

(Oh, higher, higher) (Oh, high up in the sky) I need somebody, I need a witness When I'm looking in your face You give me faith I feel this faith This must be fate What do I know? To look in your eyes when you see the vision

That night I saw through all the magic I barely recognized him at all That night I put my youth in a casket And buried it inside of me Now I'm a witness to the death of a hero I burned all the pictures in the attic And threw away the magazines And now

Don't want no high rise tombstone Gonna gather up my saints Don't wanna hear you fussing If it is or if it ain't My life needs no witness And my burden is my own You gotta answer to somebody If you didn't learn then you didn't read Gotta live with it

A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste? The enemy of truth is lying there in state What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us? Attack the family, attack their

I was younger than you are now When I was given my first command I led my men straight into a massacre I witnessed their deaths firsthand I made every mistake And felt the shame rise in me And even now I lie awake Knowing history has its eyes on me (whoa)

Behold, as Rome burns so do I This not the last empire to crumble I bore witness to rise and fall of tribes of Adonai And I have fallen short of a glory of God Lord of hosts, whore of salvation Tear the skies as you spread your legs Vomit forth upon my

God as my witness Yeah it's gonna heal my soul tonight How you gonna know, til you hear it out loud What did I do to deserve you? To save yourself, I'll behave yourself Yeah you gonna heal my soul tonight There you go again Putting words into my mouth

Everything black, I don't want black I want everything black, I ain't need black Some white some black, I ain't mean black I want everything black Once I finish this, witnesses will convey just what I mean I'm African-American, I'm African You hate me

I'm always lookin' for you Time and time again, I'm all alone Why do I pretend that I'm not cold I'm so cold, cold I'm so cold (I'm so cold) I wonder if the rain fallin' this heavily on my adversaries Why in a year, I bear witness to two obituaries