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Passion and Paradox
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The gleeful one of grape and ivy leaf
Dancing through forests of pine
Of your good senses he is the thief
With a sip of his gift of wine
To those hidden and neglected, the most kind
But violent chaos follows in his wake
For he is the battle in your mind
God of what this world gives and takes
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He is the joy and the grief
The newborn sprouts and winter's decline
Tension of fear, bliss of relief
The brutal force of nature blind
The ecstasy of love divine
The crushing crumble of earth in quake
The calming fur of prancing hind
God of what this world gives and takes
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Followers gather like fish to reef
To taste the elixir from his grapevine
And see the truth of the Madness Chief
That he is the beast hiding inside
A being contained by no lines
A terror like fire breath of drake
Whose true nature cannot be defined
God of what this world gives and takes
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Happiness in fields benign
Can too be found by those who partake
But to life and death one must resign
God of what this world gives and takes
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