Fair Roseanna your vagrancy's a familiar taleFraught with danger the lives you led were judged profaneHatred enfolds usInculcates the minds with it's heresyLaymen enfold usClemency arrives to set you freeFaithAlthough Xavier has prayedThat life-giving waters may rainDown on the souls of manTo cure them of their waysThese were the sins of Xavier's pastHung like jewels in the forest of veilsDeep in the heart where the mysteries emergeEve bears the stigma of original sinFreedom so hard when we are all bound by lawsEtched in the seam of nature's own handUnseen by all those who fail in their pursuit of faithAlthough Xavier has prayedThat life-giving waters may rainDown on the souls of manTo cure them of their waysAnd as the night turns into dayWill the sun illuminate your wayOr will the nightmares come home to stayXavier's love lies in chainsThese were the sins of Xavier's pastHung like jewels in the forest of veils(lyrics by Dead Can Dance)spent all-day listening to Dead Can Dance and reflecting on the "human condition" and wondering if the the human race [as a whole] is capable of stopping and possibly reversing our current downward spiral.. i hope we will but i highly doubt it..
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