Jewel - Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love (full song acoustic)

 Jewel - Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love 

With parted lips you pray a verse
at the altar of the Universe.
With marble skin raven hair
Suddenly the goddess standing there…
Wild things sing in words unknown
she sees into your soul
touches your trembling fear
Reflects your joy like a mirror.
You climb the hill, cathedral spire
You move like wood, and she like fire
The flames rising higher
Is it birth- or funeral pyre?

CHORUS
When she lifts her lips like a chalice
Her body a living palace
You drink deeply from the grail
Flesh on tongue
Living communion
Bow and arrow
The release of union
Into the fire you fell
And you burn 
Burn


Trembling
You ask her why?
with red lips she prophesied
If you long to be open
then your heart is destined to be broken
like smoke you float a spectral trance
the axis tilts it's a cosmic dance
what to do with shattered pieces
to turn the pain to golden fleeces
breath like smoke you breahe her in
where she goes you're following
she frees you of your earthly form
let yourself be transformed


CHORUS
When she lifts her lips like a chalice
Her body a living palace
You drink deeply from the grail
Flesh on tongue
Living communion
Bow and arrow
The ache of union
Into the fire you fell
And you burn 
Burn


She leaves you on the cliff
of your inner precipice
wondering who you'll be now
that the world is broken
open somehow
and you a child newly born
everything beauty, everything torn
on your face, a maddening grin
knowing full well you'll be burnt again


CHORUS
When she lifts her lips like a chalice
Her body a living palace
You drink deeply from the grail
Flesh on tongue
Living communion
Bow and arrow
The release of union
Into the fire you fell
And you burn 
you burn
Burn


We're all changed by love
we're all hurt by love
we're transformed by love
we're all made bigger
we're all carved deeper

we're all changed by love 
we're all changed by love