Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - THEY WERE ONE (Songs of Mythology ) lyrics

I’ve been reading recently
A great many medieval works
And these involve
Particularly in the Arthurian
Romance and so forth
Knights in combat with each other
Fiercely in combat
With complete respect for each other even
Love for each other
And there is one wonderful line
In Wolfram von Eschenbach when two
Brothers who didn't know they were brothers
Were in combat one was a Christian
And the other was a Mohammedan
They were in combat and Wolfram says
If one wished to think of
It that one that way
One could say that they were two battling
But they have the same father

And they are one

And they are one battling himself
Out of loyalty out of honor
And they are one battling himself
And doing himself much harm

But that is the tragic sense as I say
Life begins
And that’s the first thing the eye sees
Life eating it'self killing
But that’s life and the reconciliation
Of consciousness which revolts from this
To that and it's affirmation
That is the song of mythology it has been
It is the song of the religions
And with that little affirmative theme
The affirmation of life as is
I would say we have the key
To the
Hopping up the stepping up
The invigorating of life
Which has been the function actually
The first function of mythology
From the time the old cave men
Asked the bear to give it's body
For their life for their life

And they are one battling himself
Out of loyalty out of honor
And they are one battling himself
And doing himself much harm
And they are one battling himself
Out of loyalty out of honor
And they are one battling himself
And doing himself much harm

With that little theme i’ll close with
Thanks to you all (audience applause fades)