Fight 3 — Gentle Until (Fight)

Lyrics

[Barker - Verse 1]
The river-horse came laughing, took the water round with ease —
eighteen hundred pounds of "told you," brought the silverback to his knees.
But you don't beat the family man on water and call it done;
you have to take the forest too — and the forest's where he won.

[Sisu - Refrain]
gentle, gentle…
until you take what he loves…

[Barker - Verse 2]
In the green the gorilla rose to ten times what he weighs,
all that quiet turned to thunder in the canopy's dark blaze.
On the open plain he held it, calm and terrible and sure —
the hippo had the water, but the heart had so much more.

[Barker + Sisu - Chorus]
Gentle until! Gentle until!
He never wants to use it, but by God the man still will —
two-to-one for the soul of the album, for the power that protects;
the loudest thing in the forest is the quiet one you check.

[Outro - Barker]
The moral heart advances. Don't make him do that again.