Healers of the schism

If it weren't for our treaty with the pain
we'd find it harder, so much harder to stay sane
if it weren't for that mystery train
there'd be nothing for us, nothing but the chains

        we're the terrorists for magnetism
        we're the atheists for godliness
        we're the healers of the schism

                      we're looking through you
                      but we don't care
                      we're nothing to you
                      there's no pain that we can't bear
                      we're the healers of the schism (2x)

if it weren't for the fulness of the feast
we'd simply go out there and gladly back the beast
if you weren't even frightened in the least
you would never think or dream of training priests

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if the sadness wouldn't simply wring us dry
and too much gladness couldn't easily make us cry
we wouldn't be here, we wouldn't even try
to be as true, to be as real as you and I

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Nieuwjaarsnacht 1979-80