Metamorphosis Lyrics: Dearly Beloved

One step forward, two steps behind,
There's nothing I can say that will press rewind,
These are difficult times no doubt,
There's too much to carry,
And not enough before the sun goes down...

Sometimes it seems that I'm marching through the darkest of clouds,
Wondering why and I can't explain how,
When it's a dark night of the soul and nothing grows on the ground,
The wind is cold and somehow I can't reach out to you now,

But baby...I need you to know that you've never been doubted.
And brother...I'm by your side though you don't see me around.
It's just my world's been cold,
I gotta shovel some coal into the rib cage,
And I gotta do it alone.

So check it: I've been thinking about some serious things,
I've been considering the fact I've been sinking with concrete wings.
And like the rings of Saturn, I've got patterns and habits,
And I don't mean to give excuses by the truth is I have them,
I don't mean to fall from touch,
I'm a man of no magic,
If anything, Love is an invisible magnet.
And I was once enchanted but what I've had, I've lost,

So now I come to you...call it Islam, call it the Cross,
I'll even call you the Goddess because I know now you're more than a concept.
But I'm still lost...I need you.
Help me find my way.
I hope to see you soon.
For this I pray.

I don't listen when people talk about you,
Every time I do all they seem to do to doubt you.
Even when they pay lip service it's like a commercial they've heard,
Like you were something obscure,
Like you were never in the room...

And now I've said too much, but still I need your love,
Sometimes I wish we could just skip and be with you like we once was.
Living in these worldly ways is tough,
I feel like a plant in the shade contemplating the sun.

I'm hungry for something that I've never been full from,
It seems like these cities are trying to drink my blood,
We're all busy building piles so we rarely look up,
And I no longer find comfort in the fact that it will never be done...
So in you I'm placing my trust,
From the beginning to the end and I'll see what comes,
For you I'll give my flesh and pledge my blood,
And keep it clean.

Every time we touch it's like a dream,
My spirit gets lifted until it's drunk like a bucket trying to scoop the sea,
I keep trying to take away the things you say I should leave,
I fight to keep them...you let me...and I see what you mean.

Please,
I come to you again,
All I need is my health, my family and my friends,
And all I want is my health, my family and my friends,
But I know there's something else and it doesn't make sense.
I've already done too much I can't take back again,
I don't want to do another unless it's something you've said...

One step forward, two steps behind,
There's nothing I can say that will press rewind,
These are difficult times no doubt,
There's too much to carry,
And not enough before the sun goes down...

I'm calling to you, can you hear my prayer?
I'm calling to you, won't you hear my prayer?
Please hear my prayer.
Hear my prayer.
I'm calling to you.