The algebras of the earth speak the worth
To draft the laws, the vale, the midwife birth the key
The chemistry of common life

The speck on the bone
Grown to size by the poems
Coax the passions from the stone
The chemistry of common life

Iron antlers fill the sky
Metal organs fertilize
Sparks and ingots come alive
The chemistry of common life
The chemistry of common life

Here but for the spinning of a sphere
Electric skies and vibrations rise the breach
The birth, the seed inside
The chemistry of common life

Silver plated chaste embryo awakened by the touch
From the mater, the mother, the magnificence, the matter
The river of steel that flows from high holy rods
Unite the dead to God creation
The seal opens to touch the sky
Aflame with life it burns beyond
To proclaim a marriage, a chemical bond
The chemistry of common life
Eruptions from below the sleeping face
Molten veins and golden grains
The power, the ecstasy, the grace
The chemistry of common life

Here but for the spinning of a sphere
Tease the heavens that sanctify the sky
Liquid life poured down excites the ores
Ignite the crust, inseminate the dust
The cultured quartz that rises high
The stone refined that lives and shines
Be the vessel, be the knife
Stone and metal come to life
In the crux the cross divine
The shell, the purpose, the sublime
Fill the chalice with the blade
Wed the maker to the made
Grow the divine from profane
Let the shining never fade
Between the crystal and the womb
Astride the pistil and the tomb
Create from parts that were a man
The stars, to hum their song again
Fill the chalice with the blade
Wed the maker to the made
Grow the divine from profane
Let the shining never fade
Be the fire in the ice
The chemistry of common life