Counter and Parry and Thrust

Counter and parry and thrust! cries Steel.
Counter and parry and thrust!
Your sword to your arm to your heart to your will.
Counter and parry and thrust!

En garde and lay on, and the swords are drawn.
An instant. Your life's on the line.
No time for questions or doubts or fear
On the edge between livin' and dyin'.

Counter and parry and thrust! cries Steel.
Counter and parry and thrust!
The point and the edge clarify what's real.
Counter and parry and thrust!

Time slows to a swordpoint that seeks your life.
It hangs on your grip and your guard.
Focused upon the heartbeat of strife:
The fury unleashed and unbarred.

Counter and parry and thrust! cries Steel.
Counter and parry and thrust!
The charge of the moment is all you feel.
Counter and parry and thrust!

A lifetime can pass in a moment's grace
When you struggle just to survive.
You find then the closer you come to death
It's then that you feel most alive.

Counter and parry and thrust! cries Steel.
Counter and parry and thrust.
Your sword to your arm to your heart to your will.
Counter and parry and thrust: thrust home.
Counter and parry and thrust!

Counter and parrry and thrust!