[Intro] My sons went in with fire of their own. I go in with His. [Verse 1] Not on a day of my own choosing, not in the gold and blue. I wash in the water, I put on linen, white, the way He told me to. A bull for me and for my house, two goats beside the tent. I cast the lots between them. I do not choose where each is sent. [Pre-Chorus] I take the coals from the altar and two handfuls, beaten fine. The curtain is heavy in my hand. I lift it, and I cross the line. [Chorus] Beyond the veil, one day a year, I walk in with the smoke and I walk in with fear. A cloud on the mercy seat, so I live. Seven times the blood, and the LORD forgives. Beyond the veil, one day a year. [Verse 2] The cloud goes up and hides the gold. I do not raise my eyes. I dip my finger in the bullock's blood and sprinkle it seven times. Then out for the goat the lot gave God, and back in with his blood, for the tent, the altar and the holy place, for all the camp has done. [Chorus] Beyond the veil, one day a year, I walk in with the smoke and I walk in with fear. A cloud on the mercy seat, so I live. Seven times the blood, and the LORD forgives. Beyond the veil, one day a year. [Bridge] Then I come out to the living goat and lay both hands on his head, and I say it all out loud to him till there is nothing left unsaid. A man is waiting with a rope. He leads him far away, out to a land where nobody lives, and there he lets him stay. [Verse 3] I take the linen off again and leave it where it lies. I wash, I put the gold back on, and come out under open skies. The tenth day of the seventh month, the whole camp bowed down low. Nobody lifts a hand to work, and every sin we carried has to go. [Final Chorus] Beyond the veil, one day a year, I walk in with the smoke and I walk in with fear. A cloud on the mercy seat, so I live. Seven times the blood, and the LORD forgives. Beyond the veil, one day a year. My sons went in with fire of their own. I go in with His.