Achilles, Come Down

[00:07.65] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:11.15] Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[00:15.65] You’re scaring us and all of us, some of us love you

[00:19.40] Achilles, it’s not much but there’s proof

[00:23.65] You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue

[00:27.65] Redemption lies plainly in truth

[00:31.40] Just humour us, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:35.15] Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[00:55.65] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:58.90] Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[01:03.40] The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken

[01:07.65] Remember the pact of our youth

[01:11.65] Where you go, I’m going, so jump and I’m jumping

[01:15.40] Since there is no me without you

[01:19.65] Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[01:23.15] Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[01:27.65] Loathe the way they light candles in Rome

[01:31.40] But love the sweet air of the votives

[01:35.65] Hurt and grieve but don’t suffer alone

[01:39.65] Engage with the pain as a motive

[01:43.65] Today, of all days, see

[01:49.65] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[01:57.90] How you will heal and you’ll rise above

[02:13.65] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now

[02:17.15] You are absent of cause or excuse

[02:21.65] So self-indulgent and self-referential

[02:25.40] No audience could ever want you

[02:29.40] You crave the applause yet hate the attention

[02:33.15] Then miss it, your act is a ruse

[02:37.40] It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now

[02:41.65] It's a pointless resistance for you

[03:01.65] Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle

[03:05.40] Don’t listen to what you’ve consumed

[03:09.40] It’s chaos, confusion and wholly unworthy

[03:13.15] Of feeding and it’s wholly untrue

[03:17.40] You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing

[03:21.65] It’s all just conjecture and gloom

[03:25.40] And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it

[03:29.40] Do not waste yourself on this roof

[03:33.65] Hear those bells ring deep in the soul

[03:37.65] Chiming away for a moment

[03:41.65] Feel your breath course frankly below

[03:45.40] And see life as a worthy opponent

[03:49.65] Today, of all days, see

[03:55.90] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[04:03.90] How you will heal and you’ll rise above

[04:11.90] Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

[04:19.65] Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome

[04:31.90] You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers (It’s not worth it, Achilles)

[04:35.46] More poignant than fame or the taste of another (Don’t listen, Achilles)

[04:39.96] But be real and just jump, you dense motherfucker (You’re worth more, Achilles)

[04:43.46] You will not be more than a rat in the gutter (So much more than a rat)

[04:47.46] You want my opinion, my opinion you’ve got (No one asked your opinion)

[04:51.21] You asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts (No one asked for your thoughts)

[04:55.46] Be done with this now and jump off the roof (Be done with this now and get off the roof)

[04:59.21] Can you hear me, Achilles? I’m talking to you

[05:06.46] I’m talking to you

[05:10.46] I’m talking to you

[05:14.96] I’m talking to you

[05:18.96] Achilles, come down

[05:23.21] Achilles, come down

[06:03.68] Throw yourself into the unknown

[06:07.43] With pace and a fury defiant

[06:11.68] Clothe yourself in beauty untold

[06:15.43] And see life as a means to a triumph

[06:19.43] Today, of all days, see

[06:25.68] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[06:33.68] How you will heal and you’ll rise above

[06:41.93] Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

[06:49.93] Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome