歌词
[Verse 1]
If I could go back
If I could reach that feeling again
If I could go back
If I could reach that feeling again
[Verse 2]
I would not have let shit-talkers stop me
Failures, whispers, sad how hard she tries
Advance, retreat, accept defeat so softly
Shrink inside to see through your camera's eyes
[Verse 3]
The greatness she has dreamed, her acts have missed
Her labor, her passion, her pain
A rapture and a pang
Her glory and her curse
[Verse 4]
The greatness she has dreamed, her acts have missed
And yet she cannot choose, but labors on
Her mighty heart forbids her to desist
[Verse 5]
For as long as the world lasts her failure lives
Astonishing and foiling reason's gaze
A folly and a beauty unspeakable
A superb madness of the will to live
A superb madness of the will to live
[Verse 6]
This is her being's law
Its sole resource
Satisfaction never comes
Never comes, never comes, never comes
[Verse 7]
Her hungry will to lavish everywhere
Her many-imaged fictions of the self
And thousand fashions of one reality
[Verse 8]
Escape from the moment's prison of littleness
Almost
She nears what never can be attained
She shuts eternity into an hour
[Verse 9]
She serves no aim
But labors driven by a nameless will
Her secret, an impossible task
She serves no aim
But labors driven by a nameless will
[Verse 10]
So she follows her sublime and rational plan
Invents devices of her magic art
But even now so she knows not what she's done
For all is wrought beneath a baffling mask
A semblance other than its hidden truth
[Verse 11]
The unfinished creation of a changing soul
In a body changing with the inhabitant
The unfinished creation of a changing soul
In a body changing with the inhabitant
[Verse 12]
Insignificant her means, infinite her work
On a great field of shapeless consciousness
A strange enthusiasm has moved her heart
[Verse 13]
She hungers for heights
Passions for the supreme
Hunts for the perfect word, the perfect shape
Leaps to the summit light
[Verse 14]
And woos his large-eyed wandering thoughts to dwell
In figures of her million-impulsed force
[Verse 15]
Woos his large-eyed wandering thoughts
To dwell in figures
Of her million-impulsed force
Her million-impulsed force
Her million-impulsed force
That's it
Written by: Emily Haines
