We Need a Myth

We need a myth

We need an amethyst bridge

We need a high hanging cliff

Jump, fall and lift

We can make itBut we need a myth

We need a path through the mist

Like in our beds, we were just kids

Like what was said by our parentsA myth

'Cause what we're after is just this

A myth

'Cause what we're after is just thisWe need a myth

I feel my heart's like a fist

Words spilling out of the blessed lips

Of any prophet or goddessI need a myth

Brought back to life by a kiss

Scrape away grey cement

Show me the world as it was againAs it was in a myth

A red ribbon to reconnect

The lady's head to her neck

And to forget that her throat was ever slit'Cause what we're after is just this

It's a myth

'Cause what we're after is just thisAnd I'm sick of all these picture books that try

To steal some old reflections for their light

But desperate measures point to desperate times

And that's why

We need a mythWe're cut adrift

We need a mass uplift

The world is trembling and weeping

Just at the point of believingIn a myth

The sun that shines on my head

The moon that lights me to bed

Were two identical twinsInside of a myth

I heard the voice of a friend

On Lethe's banks, wading in

And he said, ["Before I forget..."]We need a myth

As we lean in to kiss

To get two nails through the wrist

To get covered in blood

And to get covered in spit

And to forgiveAnd if all we're taught is a trick

Why would this feeling persist?

And with the truth closing in

I must insistWe need a myth