Rhythm of Life - Paula Cole, Roger Moutenot

To the atheists and the pessimists

Wanting company in their darkness, yes

You may see me as a fool, yes, a charlatan, an egotist

But I’d rather be this in your eyes, than a coward in his

I began as Isis, the high priestess

My arms stretched to Sirius

Me, the serpent Venus

Awaken the fetus, fertility to Jesus

Come and meet us

Looking within, I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Looking within, I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Next I was lightning, God energy fighting

To tell my widow surviving, I was still alive in

Another plane of life and I struck him seven times

He finally looked to the sky

Shed a tear and joined me dying

Looking within, I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and I die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Looking within I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha

Rhythm of life

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha

Rhythm of life

Now I am me, in diffident lead, responsibility

Trying to face my fear, from the trailer park to hear

Over mountains, through my death

From harbinger to amen, may my actions outweigh my words

May my lifetime be of worth

Looking within I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and I die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Looking within I can see beyond my sight

The cities, the sky, the planets roll by

I awake and I die, I awake and I die

This is the rhythm of life

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha

Rhythm of life

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah

Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life

Rhythm of life

All the worlds a stage

And all the men and women merely players

They have their exits and their entrances

And one man in his time, plays many parts