There's an inner voice that measures every deed Whispering in shadows where the silent actions bleed Born from every teardrop, born from ancient pain A compass painted slowly through the sun and through the rain It isn't written down in law, nor spoken from a stage It’s the phantom of the scars we left in every past age Every strike we ever gave comes back to light the way Turning darkness into mercy at the breaking of the day Oh, conscience is the mirror of the soul The gentle hands of Karma making broken spirits whole You feel the pain of others 'cause you've walked that road before And the heart begins to open where it closed the door It’s the evolutionary spark, the quiet sacred sign As the animal steps back and lets the human shine In the early days of struggle, we would fight to just survive Unaware that every neighbor kept our own heart alive Now the pang of another's sorrow cuts us like a knife That is wisdom taking root within the garden of life Not a punishment or burden, not a heavy wooden cross Just the beauty of compassion rising up out of loss Every strike we ever gave comes back to light the way Turning darkness into mercy at the breaking of the day Oh, conscience is the mirror of the soul The gentle hands of Karma making broken spirits whole You feel the pain of others 'cause you've walked that road before And the heart begins to open where it closed the door It’s the evolutionary spark, the quiet sacred sign As the animal steps back and lets the human shine When you cannot cause a hurt, when you cannot leave a wound That is not a weakness, that’s a spirit finely tuned It’s the holy law of nature, moving onward to the light Where intuition guides us through the deepest of the night No more eye for an eye, no more fire for the fire Just the lift of empathy pulling human hearts higher Oh, conscience is the mirror of the soul The gentle hands of Karma making broken spirits whole You feel the pain of others 'cause you've walked that road before And the heart begins to open where it closed the door It’s the evolutionary spark, the quiet sacred sign As the animal steps back and lets the human shine As the human shines... Listen to the quiet voice within Where true peace will begin.
