Basilica of The Sacred Heart (Not Scared 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 (Not Scared Suite)

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O, the joy
The rapture
(Rapture)
O, the joy
The 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
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
.
O, the joy
The rapture of a love of love exceeding
Evidently every bit as needful thing as breathing
Soaring the abiding skies
Exploring ways to greater rise
Reprise safe flight with faith divine to decimate dividing line
.
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
Each hopeful dream then realised
.
This scene we set of winding streams
Its theme bedecked in evergreen devout
.
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
.
The greatest love of all loves known
Was known then
In an instant
Learned souls omniscient
Entirely coexistent
No retreat to beat advance
Fate unseated
Weaving yarn
Darning dream from darling scene
To bid proceed with mystic charm
To bid proceed with mystic charm
.