Chasing Mercury

Chorus

The skeptic

The yogi

The reefer

Peyote

The barakha is revealed

The joker

The artist

The fool in the beast’s mouth

He knows not what’s real

Verse 1

A hungry wolf

With only one desire

Take a look at your denial

In a glance

You may see

The IS of identity

Verse 2

In a book

You may read

Of sephiroth

And planes of strange beasts

If you do

You may know the truth

Success is your proof

Turn around

Guess the truth

Real the lies

Process everlasting

The universe is changing for you

Chorus

Verse 3

A shifting world view

Consider a change of heart

When beggars start to choose

Your world falls apart

The axis tilts

The people scream

But it is all your dream

Verse 4

A symbol etched in stone

Designed by soul and mind

This mob is made of fiends

These people seem real kind

When the thinker departs

And the prover is gone

The serpent had circled the sun

Interlude

Change the tense

Real the lies

See it shift with interaction

The universe is changing for you

Instrumental

v.i.t.r.i.o.l.

Verse 1

Follow the wake as the blue ocean rises

The minds of the world sail for silver horizons

They brave the dark deep and fly grazing the sun

But the stone that they seek is the internal one

Chorus

Into the storm

Towards the silver horizon

Let the lightning cleave in two

The spirit that is you

Chorus

Verse 2

Cresting the moon as man realizes

The quest of the world is where mercury rises

They brave the bright stars and sail into the sun

But the stone that they seek is the internal one

Chorus x 2

Bridge

Thought to form

In the nature of wisdom

The word takes form

Then all gone

In the chaos of thinking

The form is no more

Instrumental

Verse 3

Preaching of light

As if the blind ever need it

It’s a shadow of thought

If no one can see it

They hold it up high

But it carries no heat

The fire inside

Is the one you should seek

Chorus x 2

Abridged Bridge

Thought to form

In the nature of wisdom

The form is no more

Verse 1

Go to the core of the earth

Rectify what you find

Rebuild the pillars and walls

Reverse the shambles and go

Seek the luminous spark

To the beat of your heart

Divide the digit of one

Realize how lucky you

Aaaarrrrreeeee

Verse 2

Go lay your hand on the stone

Mix the venom and bone

Defeat the pattern of woe

See your own path and go

To the core of the earth

Purify what you find

Retrieve the Stone of the wise

Realize how lucky you

Aaaarrrrreeeee

(Stone of the wise)

Quarried from caves in the depth of the mind

(Carried through time)

Hidden as treasure for folly to find

Instrumental

Verse 1

Verse 2

Agnos