A Face That Toils So Close To Stones

from Everything's Amazing Nobody's Happy by Meliora

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They say, "Everything looks this way for a reason,"
to the blind men eager to see but know the night has no end.
Press your cheeks to the stone, my friends, and let's feel the weight of our burden
And then we'll push this miserable rock up as high as it goes.

But it always slips away from us.

They say, "Everything stays this way for a reason,"
As we turn back to the depths to weep and start again.
I say, "There's an empty space beside you. Make it the shape of everything you need, and now say hello.
Then help me move this stone."

But it always slips away from us.

In that little descent, we are alive
and oh my god, I'm on fire
Retracing the steps from the fight we gave.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
Let the better angels of your nature win.
Oh my god, I'm on fire.
Even though it never stops, we start again.
Oh my god. Oh my god.

It will always slip, and I will always push it.

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from Everything's Amazing Nobody's Happy, released December 16, 2018

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