Basilica of The Sacred Heart (Metropolis Suite)

The original version of Basilica of The Sacred Heart has been published in All of Me Vol. IV, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing.

Listen to Basilica of The Sacred Heart by Richard Charles Stevens (Metropolis Suite)

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O, the joy
The rapture
(Rapture)
.
Our widened eyes first met
Upon the hallowed steps of chance
Beneath the venerated spire
Admired through fleeting glance
No retreat to beat advance
Fate unseated
Weaving yarn
Darning dream from darling scene
To bid proceed with mystic charm
.
Upon the hallowed steps of chance
Two bleeding hearts made sacred vow
To nevermore resign of inner calm
To find forevermore in wingèd arms
.
O, the joy
The rapture
(Rapture)
.
Time appeared to fall away
Before the gushing waterway
Across the way in plume of spray
To left and right our comrades laid
Lion hearts on mounts displayed
To further tout the boundless frame
Farther out than wildest dream
This scene we set of winding streams
Its theme bedecked in evergreen devout
Its theme bedecked in evergreen devout
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Evidently every bit as needful thing as breathing
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
(Rapture)
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Evidently every bit as needful thing as breathing
Requisite for sacred heart
Discredited of beating
Evidence against conception
Everything is fleeting
Weaving braid through danger days
Engineering change of phase
Commandeering major veins
Mainstay of sanguine embrace
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
.
O, the joy
The rapture
(Rapture)
(Rapture)
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
(Rapture)
.
Found my sacred heart
Upon the fragrant steps of chance
Open arms
Awakened smile
Bereft of fret
Undressed of trial
Posed upon sweet lips that taste befittingly like home
Nesting flawless essence as the light her face enthrones
.
Farther than the moonbeam skies
I watch her in the steep of flight
Ineffable technique applied
To heavens blessed of equal height
Every star she glances
I make ardent dash to capture
Marvelling at boundless frame and decorated stature
.
Soaring the abiding skies
Exploring ways to greater rise
Reprise safe flight with faith divine to decimate dividing line
.
(O, the joy
The rapture)
O, the joy
The rapture
.
Had we harboured grave designs
The candelabra would have died
Instead its flame gained altitude
With scope to broadest latitude
Each hopeful dream then realised
Through widened eyes of gratitude
No reason for a parachute
No cause for bourgeois attitude
Just solitary treasured bloom
Measureless in magnitude
Oft alleged to fall away
Before her philharmonic gaze
Swimming in harmonic waves
Spinning the tectonic plates
This symphony in symmetry to mystical divinity
Soul to soul
I grow into the depths of her infinity
.
O, the joy
The rapture
.
Dressing chance in coat of arms bespoke of probability
Nevermore possessed of chronic haze
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Evidently every bit as needful thing as breathing
Requisite for sacred heart
Discredited of beating
Evidence against conception
Everything is fleeting
Weaving braid through danger days
Engineering change of phase
Commandeering major veins
Mainstay of sanguine embrace
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
.
The greatest love of all loves known
Was known then
In an instant
Learned souls omniscient
Entirely coexistent
In enrichment of the mortal coils of which we had outgrown
This was single vision
This was infinite provision
These were breaths in woven ribbon
And the death of woes forbidden
This was nevermore unwritten
This was home
The only home our souls had ever known
.
Found my sacred heart
In every contour of her blessèd face
Long since faded smile reclaimed
Every vacant mile engaged
Farther than the moonbeam skies
To lips of parch
Pink lemonade
Underneath the marble arch
Feel charmed to start the serenade
Feel charmed to start the serenade
.
Upon the fragrant steps of chance
In harmony enclaved
Two sacred hearts
Of one advance became
Two sacred hearts
Of one advance became
Two sacred hearts
Of one advance became
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Evidently every bit as needful thing as breathing
Requisite for sacred heart
Discredited of beating
Evidence against conception
Everything is fleeting
Weaving braid through danger days
Engineering change of phase
Commandeering major veins
Mainstay of sanguine embrace
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
Stretched across the bounds of time and space
.