BEYOND PANDORA'S DOOR


         lyrics and music copyright (C) 1982 by Ernest Clark

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I remember my first con, when a-walking down a corridor
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One midnight I heard music come a-drifting out a door
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I turned with curiosity, let's see what all this song could be,
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And what I heard enchanted me, I had to hear some more!

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I learned sorrow and respect for the soldiers leaving Harmony,
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Felt pride, pure and mighty, for the Eagle on the Moon,
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Heard the Lord and Lady's children sing along with sweet serenity.
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From song to song the music leaped, and morning came too soon!


What magic keeps us singing here while parties run on every floor?
What spell is laid upon us, makes us well and gladly caught?
'Tis sharing love and fellowship, the joy of being on a trip
To find the shining star you'd never known that you had sought.

So let tears of joy, let your laughter and your sorrow mix,
The music that you hear is but an echo of your soul.
Your feelings tell you clearly what your intellect was meant to know:
The joy we give, the pain we share, together make us whole!


Let your thoughts reach for infinity, set mind and soul together free;
The future and the past, to the ends of time we'll go.
Be the present now a tapestry, upon it now the vision see
Of all the emotions that the Universe can know.

But the clock counts on, we cannot stay the rising sun;
This time shall become but a memory we share.
Preserve it in your heart, may from it one day a fire spring:
What has gone by again shall be while we ourselves still care!
What has gone by again shall be while we ourselves still care!