She stood at the crossroads, hound at her side Her faces aglow in saffron light As Her words of flame burned through the night She looked my way and said "Yours is the heart, Yours is the wind, Yours is the key, that lies within" The key The key It turns day to night Opens all doors both dark and light From birth to death It’s always near Unlock your truth Secure your fear The first door was crying A breath pulled in deep The last one’s a silence Death's tender sleep But between them lies wonder The locks of your soul Each turn of the key sets the broken parts whole The lock of birth the gate of death A secret in between every sacred breath A door to love A door to pain Through them all What's true remains The key The key It opens the sight Unlocks the dark Reveals the light Through every gate Through every door The key will last forevermore... It opens the way to dreams untold To sacred fires and fields of gold It’s stronger than iron It’s deeper than bone It’s forged in the memory Of everyone I’ve known A goddess’s gift A tether A thread It opens the gates of the living and dead The final gate waits still and dark A silver edge a fleeting spark I’ll turn the key and the circle will close Where I began, is where I’ll go. From birth unbound we'll walk this road into the grave that will cradle us underground. This life unspun our thread of gold at last unwound. Was it all you hoped, this life you found, a story worthy to be told? The key The key It opens the sight Unlocks the dark Reveals the light Through every gate Through every door The key will last forevermore... The first door was crying A breath pulled in deep The last one’s a silence Death's tender sleep But between them lies wonder, Sorrow, joy, and pain Through them all We'll walk again...
