How?

How do you keep on going on your own?

How do you lose your flesh and blood

Then carry on alone?

I thought we'd meet in heaven

Is heaven even there?

Or is it only stars and empty air?

Hello?

There must be something more, something more

Isn't there? Isn't there? Isn't there?

How do you get through life bereft of faith?

After you've prayed the seventh day

Who listens on the eighth?

Does prayer dissolve in ether

And vanish in the void?

How do you bear your burdens with belief itself destroyed?

How, how, tell me how

How to reclaim the person you once were?

What's the point of all the fame and power?

Why do I feel unsatisfied

With all that I've accomplished

So empty inside?

Unfinished, goddammit, I took a magic drug

To show me how to grow

One hundred fifty micrograms

Enough, not enough, not nearly enough, no!

How do you save a marriage without love?

Physical love, the human touch

I get so little of

I was so blind, self-centered

For somebody so smart

Succeeding without hearing my own heart

I pushed their love aside 'til they died

I live on all alone, terrified

And what now?

Persevere

Tell me how