Life Substance #1 - The primordial desire

(Verse 1) In the silence of the Absolute Before the tree, before the fruit. A restlessness began to grow With nowhere yet for it to go. Beyond the reach of space and time. Beyond the reason or the rhyme. There came a thirst, a holy need. The cosmic soil, the hidden seed. (Pre-Chorus) It isn’t thought, it isn’t choice. It doesn’t have a human voice. It’s just the "Want," the "Must," the "Will" that makes the universe un-still! (Chorus) It’s the Primal Longing! Substance Number One! The fire that burns before the birth of any sun. The hunger to feel, the hunger to see. The spark that ignites the will to be! It’s the engine of life, the "I"’s command. The blueprint held in a faceless hand. Before the story is even begun there is only... Substance Number One! (Verse 2) It pushes through the velvet dark It demands a flame, it seeks a spark. It tires of the "Always-Was". It craves the "Is" and seeks the "Does." It wants the shadow, wants the light. It wants the struggle and the flight. Without this hunger, all would fade into a dream that’s never made. (Bridge) It’s the longing for the contrast! The longing for the change! To take the Infinite... And make it wild and strange! It’s the pilot light of God In every atom, every clod! I want to live! I want to know! I want to feel the spirit grow! (Chorus) It’s the Primal Longing! Substance Number One! The fire that burns before the birth of any sun. The hunger to feel, the hunger to see The spark that ignites the will to be! It’s the engine of life, the "I"’s command. The blueprint held in a faceless hand. Before the story is even begun there is only... Substance Number One! (Outro) The thirst... The need... The ancient, holy greed... To be alive. To be... Substance Number One.