Karaoké Achilles Come Down Gang of Youths

Achilles, Achilles

Achilles come down

Won't you get up off

Get up off the roof

You're scaring us and all of us

Some of us love you Achilles

It's not much but there's proof

You crazy-assed cosmonaut

Remember your virtue

Redemption lies plainly in truth

Just humor us Achilles

Achilles come down

Won't you get up off

Get up off the roof

Achilles, Achilles

Achilles come down

Won't you get up off

Get up off the roof

The self is not so weightless nor whole and unbroken

Remember the pact of our youth

Where you go I'm going so jump and I'm jumping since there is no me without you

Soldier on Achilles

Achilles come down

Won't you get up off

Get up off the roof

Loathe the way they light candles in Rome but love the sweet air of the votives

Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone

Engage with the pain as a motive

Today of all days see how the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you'll rise above

Achilles, Achilles

Achilles jump now

You are absent of cause or excuse

So self-indulgent and self-referential

No audience could ever want you

You crave the applause yet hate the attention then miss it

Your act is a ruse

It is empty Achilles so end it all now

It's a pointless resistance for you

Dam dam dam dam dam

Dah dah dah dah dah

Achilles, Achilles

Just put down the bottle

Don't listen to what you've consumed

It's chaos, confusion and wholly unworthy of feeding and it's wholly untrue

You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing

It's all just conjecture and gloom

And there may not be meaning so find one and seize it

Do not waste yourself on this roof

Hear those bells ring deep in the soul

Chiming away for a moment

Feel your breath course frankly below and see life as a worthy opponent

Today of all day see how the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you'll rise above

Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

Ah it's more courageous to overcome

You want the acclaim

The mother of mothers

It's not worth it Achilles

More poignant than fame or the taste of another

Don't listen Achilles

But be real and just jump you dense motherfucker

You're worth more Achilles

You will not be more than a rat in the gutter

So much more than a rat

You want my opinion

No one asked your opinion my opinion you've got

You asked for my counsel

No one asked for your thoughts

I gave you my thoughts

Be done with this now

Be done with this now and get off the roof and jump off the roof

Can you hear me Achilles

I'm talking to you

Can you hear me Achilles

I'm talking to you

I'm talking to you

I'm talking to you

I'm talking to you

I'm talking to you

Achilles come down

Achilles come down

Throw yourself into the unknown with pace and a fury defiant

Clothe yourself in beauty untold and see life as a means to a triumph

Today of all days see how the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you'll rise above

Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

Ah it's more courageous to overcome