White Mountain

You saw it standing there

Capped in white powder

Its lonely peak was beckoning

Hour after hour

You were feeling pretty down

So at night you decided to climb

You woke up in the morning

Right back where you started

With needles in your skull

Wondering why you had departed

Yeah, not the greatest plan

But it seemed a good idea at the time

Still you couldn't stop thinking

'Bout those walls of solid granite

Convinced some sorry rubes

It went down just like you planned it

You sounded like a prophet

So they all came along for the ride

Now they get up with the dawn

Their bewildered heads aching

They admire your stoicism

But can't tell that you're faking

It's a smokescreen that's obscuring

Every doubt that you carry inside

Don't

Don't pretend

That you

You comprehend

White Mountain

Don't

Don't lie again

I know

Know where you've been

White Mountain

Your servants stifle a groan

The cold wind cuts to the bone

But they won't hear you complain

It keeps you numb to the pain

That you feel but refuse to recognize

You tell me you're not sad

But I can see it in your eyes

The illusion you've constructed for yourself

Has begun wearing thin

So plod onward and hope that no one pays attention

Let them believe this strategy was your invention

You've come too far to quit

And goddamned be the cost of your sins