Achiles Come Down

[00:08.19] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:11.71] Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

[00:15.97] You're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you

[00:20.24] Achilles, it's not much but there's proof

[00:24.01] You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue

[00:28.29] Redemption lies plainly in truth

[00:32.06] Just humor us, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:35.57] Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

[00:56.17] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[00:59.69] Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

[01:04.22] The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken

[01:08.23] Remember the pact of our youth

[01:12.00] Where you go, I'm going, so jump and I'm jumping

[01:16.03] Since there is no me without you

[01:20.04] Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down

[01:23.81] Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

[01:28.08] Loathe the way they light candles in Rome

[01:32.11] But love the sweet air of the votives

[01:36.12] Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone

[01:40.13] Engage with the pain as a motive

[01:44.16] Today, of all days, see

[01:50.19] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[01:58.22] How you will heal and you'll rise above

[02:14.30] Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now

[02:17.82] You are absent of cause or excuse

[02:22.10] So self-indulgent and self-referential

[02:26.11] No audience could ever want you

[02:30.13] You crave the applause yet hate the attention

[02:33.90] Then miss it, your act is a ruse

[02:37.92] It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now

[02:41.94] It's a pointless resistance for you

[03:02.03] Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle

[03:06.05] Don't listen to what you've consumed

[03:09.82] It's chaos, confusion and wholly unworthy

[03:14.08] Of feeding and it's wholly untrue

[03:17.85] You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing

[03:22.12] It's all just conjecture and gloom

[03:25.89] And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it

[03:30.15] Do not waste yourself on this roof

[03:34.18] Hear those bells ring deep in the soul

[03:37.94] Chiming away for a moment

[03:41.96] Feel your breath course frankly below

[03:46.48] And see life as a worthy opponent

[03:49.99] Today, of all days, see

[03:56.28] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[04:04.05] How you will heal and you'll rise above

[04:12.35] Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

[04:20.13] Ah, it's more courageous to overcome

[04:32.70] You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers (it's not worth it, Achilles)

[04:36.46] More poignant than fame or the taste of another (don't listen, Achilles)

[04:40.22] But be real and just jump, you dense motherfucker (you're worth more, Achilles)

[04:43.99] You will not be more than a rat in the gutter (so much more than a rat)

[04:48.26] You want my opinion, my opinion you've got (no one asked your opinion)

[04:52.28] You asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts (no one asked for your thoughts)

[04:56.05] Be done with this now and jump off the roof (be done with this now and get off the roof)

[04:59.82] Can you hear me, Achilles? I'm talking to you

[05:07.10] I'm talking to you

[05:10.87] I'm talking to you

[05:15.39] I'm talking to you

[05:19.42] Achilles, come down

[05:23.69] Achilles, come down

[06:04.13] Throw yourself into the unknown

[06:07.90] With pace and a fury defiant

[06:11.92] Clothe yourself in beauty untold

[06:15.94] And see life as a means to a triumph

[06:19.96] Today, of all days, see

[06:26.24] How the most dangerous thing is to love

[06:34.02] How you will heal and you'll rise above

[06:42.06] Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

[06:50.11] Ah, it's more courageous to overcome