After All

Hear the voice of the unremembered heart
 Hear the silence between each word
 Black and white divided grays that cut between us
 Filled with broken shards of promised days
 I'm standing far ahead
 Always looking backwards
 I'm standing far behind
 With eyes fixed on tomorrow
 Breathe in deep, and open your heart again
 The fire burns where the embers fall
 So love, in spite of the pain you feel
 For the lives we live - follow after all
 Where are the artists and the prophets?
 Lost below the wheels of this machine...
 Because money drives the vanity of human culture
 But emotion fuels our hope and feeds our dreams
 They dance upon the water
 They dance upon the fire
 They dance upon the stoney ground
 With palms turned to the sky