I know you’ve had it rough
But that’s how it’s been for all of us
And we’ve all been victims of broken vows
But you don’t have to be one right now
Come with me and I promise
To shield you from all sorrow
Harbor you from horror
Take away your torture
And I couldn’t be more honest
When I say the rest of your days
Will turn like successive pages
Beautifully illustrated
And dense with glorious prose.
Existence don’t make any sense
It’s just a lifetime of gathering hints
It’s so useless to grasp for clues
Instead listen to what I have to say to you
Come with me and I promise
To bend the world to your happiness
And to set you up as its goddess
Like Aphrodite to Adonis
And I tell you this in earnest
Its skies will always charm you
And its mountains always guard you
And its creatures never harm you
And no storms for you anymore
But, baby, do not be astonished
When I fail at all I’ve promised
My soul is so ill and impoverished
My body diseased and demolished
And every time I try to be
Something better than me
I fall through so deep
That the earth cannot contain me
And I streak like a thousand comets
Through swollen suns that scathe me
And black holes that escape me
Until I drift beyond saving
And I burn like a star alone.
But if you could then prevail
And keep my promises when I fail
I promise it’ll only be temporary
I can get us back to where we want to be
Come with me and I promise
To shield you from all sorrow
Harbor you from horror
Take away your torture
And I couldn’t be more honest
When I say the rest of your days
Will turn like successive pages
Beautifully illustrated
And dense with glorious prose.
I know
Dense with glorious prose.
God knows
Dense with glorious prose.
Now you know...everything.