For all we hold so dear
We’re coming nowhere near

As I sauntered deeper into the woods
I found myself stepping more lightly
To rejuvenate the earth that was rejuvenating me
I drank from the evening deeply
My senses alight with gratitude and appreciation
Wild mystical enigma
Wild mystical enigma

And when I let myself be enchanted by ordinary experience
I am glad to the point of fear
I am glad to the point of fear
The simple life makes mystics of us all
A thoughtful love of life
Arising out of an openness to mystery
Wild mystical enigma

For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near
Awakening of spirit
For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near

The twinkle of dawn emerged on the dark horizon
As the sun rises like a warm god over the Eastern mount
Just bathe your eyes in these soft ocean skies
Of purple, blue, and pink
And you will find in this sublime
That there are worse places to sink

A cosmological wind strengthened within me
Blowing new energy into the embers of my soul
I felt infinitely grateful to be alive and present
To this extraordinary scene
Standing there I experienced an ecstatic moment of rapture
But such moments of mystical madness
Are so intense
That one is never quite the same again
They shape the soul in ways that cannot be undone
They shape the soul in ways that cannot be undone

For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near
Awakening of spirit
For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near

Empire’s ecological crisis was first and foremost
A spiritual crisis
A crisis of cosmology and vision
One cannot easily fall in love with what one does not know
One cannot easily fall in love with what one does not know
Crass rat race not to my taste
Out from the rush I stepped with haste
Standing there I experienced an ecstatic moment of rapture
Blowing new energy into the embers of my soul
The simple life makes mystics of us all
A crisis of cosmology and vision
One cannot easily fall in love with what one does not know

For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near
On the dark horizon
For all we hold so dear
Awakening of spirit
We’re coming nowhere near
Moments of mystical madness
For all we hold so dear
They shape the soul in ways that cannot be undone
We’re coming nowhere near
Moments of mystical madness
For all we hold so dear
They shape the soul in ways that cannot be undone
We’re coming nowhere near
Awakening of spirit
For all we hold so dear
On the dark horizon
We’re coming nowhere near
For all we hold so dear
On the dark horizon
We’re coming nowhere near