Trial by Fire

Here and now it doesn't matter
The highway you have taken
For now as you awaken
You're underneath new skin

I'm setting you in motion
And opening your eyes
And underneath these skies
You'll forget all whom you've been

I dust away the plaster
From off your breathing body
You're touching your autonomy
You'll never be the same

And fingers grab at nothing
For the first time they are feeling
For the first time they are healing
As I whisper your new name

I sculpt your nature within
I am your Pygmalion
Go now into the world
Trial by fire
Trial by fire, yeah

The passing of an hour
The splitting of a fraction
A chemical reaction
Is waiting to fluoresce

Your mind is still rewiring
The colors of the morning
The sound of hornets swarming
The glow of my caress

And have you seen the outside
The world that lies beyond us
Where streets are paved with jaundice?
Where innocence forgot?

And have you seen the future?
So hard is it to hold you
So hard is it to mold you
To something you are not

I sculpt your nature within
I am your Pygmalion
Go now into the world
Trial by fire
Trial by fire, yeah

I sculpt your nature within
I am your Pygmalion
Go now into the world
Trial by fire
Trial by fire, yeah

And can you live on your own?
I give you up, I turn to stone
Go now into the world
Trial by fire
Trial by fire

Here, now, start to move
Uncertain with each step you take
What is gentleness
Beyond my eyes, beyond my bodyscape?

Turn and look one more time
See me brimming with
Saltwater brine
Away you run, away I give

I sculpt your nature within
I am your Pygmalion
Go now into the world
Trial by fire
Trial by fire, yeah