Rite Of Passage

Take the young ones to the desert teach them how the

arrow flies

How to smell the beast upon the wind and run with

mother nature’s loving lies

Show them how to balance what is wrong and what is

right

And make their own directions through the longest

darkest night

CHORUS

Oh you need that rite of passage before you can

continue on

That brave self understanding you can lean your dreams

upon

You may want for children you may crave for man and

wife

But you need that rite of passage to the summer of your

life

Show the children to the master, put the tools into

their hands

Show them how to work the grain and how to hold the

ever moving sand

Place with them the knowledge of the far and of the

near

And lead them through the waiting storms that will

never ever clear

CHORUS

It’s a sad deluded vision this creature of our time

It’s body now is broken, it’s smile it rarely has the

chance to shine

It stands so high and mighty with its never ending

needs

While somewhere in the beating heart the earth it

vainly pleads

CHORUS