So pure is the essence Full of love, life and undying acceptance Giving more, receiving less With no regrets its sweet caress Worthy of transcendence So powerful is the essence Like a ship tossed and driven Battered by the sea of the unforgiven It sails alone only with the holy presence The mystery remains unsolved The more I try the more rights I've turned to wrong Though faith, courage and truth have always kept it strong Like the moonlight, it's weary when it dances too long So vulnerable is the essence Susceptible to the vampire's bite Again and again it's just another victim of the night You think it would learn its lesson But sometimes it takes three lefts just to make one right Repeat Life will cease to flow when the essence turns cold Sight will be blind and all will fall apart It's been the center of us from the very first start Don't let the tales of love and life go untold The essence I'm referring to is our hearts