To the critics and the cynics, who don't understand the lyrics   To the atheists and the pessimists   Wanting company in their darkness, yes   You may see me as a fool, yes, a charlatan, an egotist   But I'd rather be this in your eyes, than a coward in his      I began as Isis, the high priestess   My arms stretched to Sirius   Me, the serpent Venus   Awaken the fetus, fertility to Jesus   Come and meet us      Looking within, I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Looking within, I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Next I was lightning, God energy fighting   To tell my widow surviving, I was still alive in   Another plane of life and I struck him seven times   He finally looked to the sky   Shed a tear and joined me dying      Looking within, I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and I die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Looking within I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah   Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha   Rhythm of life      Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah   Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha   Rhythm of life      Now I am me, in diffident lead,responsibility   Trying to face my fear, from the trailer park to hear   Over mountains, through my death   From harbinger to amen, may my actions outweigh my words   May my lifetime be of worth      Looking within I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and I die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Looking within I can see beyond my sight   The cities, the sky, the planets roll by   I awake and I die, I awake and I die   This is the rhythm of life      Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah   Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, aha   Rhythm of life      Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life, yeah   Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, rhythm of life   Rhythm of life      All the worlds a stage   And all the men and women merely players   They have their exits and their entrances   And one man in his time, plays many parts