Rite Of Passage

MacLean Dougie

Take the young ones to the desert teach them how the 
arrow flies
How to smell the beast upon the wind and run with 
mother nature’s loving lies
Show them how to balance what is wrong and what is 
right
And make their own directions through the longest 
darkest night

CHORUS
Oh you need that rite of passage before you can 
continue on
That brave self understanding you can lean your dreams 
upon
You may want for children you may crave for man and 
wife
But you need that rite of passage to the summer of your 
life

Show the children to the master, put the tools into 
their hands
Show them how to work the grain and how to hold the 
ever moving sand
Place with them the knowledge of the far and of the 
near
And lead them through the waiting storms that will 
never ever clear
CHORUS

It’s a sad deluded vision this creature of our time
It’s body now is broken, it’s smile it rarely has the 
chance to shine
It stands so high and mighty with its never ending 
needs
While somewhere in the beating heart the earth it 
vainly pleads
CHORUS