Into The Valley

Monuments atop the summit of the mind

But stone pillars turn to dust when attention shines

That granite chips when the point of observation pries

Them cornerstones are prone to crumble right before our eyes

Now that’s the truth in lies

Grave deceptions are but servants of the wise

Deluded in our grandeur like a fool that’s in disguise

But strip away the surface and reveal the great divide

Between the ornaments of culture and the meaning of our lives

Before we lay in ash

I feel ascension giving way at last

Into the valley once more now we go

Into the gray, into the ground down below

You can search the afterlife for pearly gates

But only manner of the earth can serve to wipe the slate

Reject what’s given or accept it, that’s the choice you make

But destinations are determined by the steps we take

So make that great escape

That fixed belief it will fracture before it changes shape

That chain holds firm up until it shatters amidst the ties you break

Don’t root your feet or you’ll never manage to slide and shift your weight

Turn about face and imagine what can happen, see that’s the twist of fate

They found the treasure but their pockets are full of toys

And their victors of status but of true spoils they can’t enjoy

Although no man’s an island within many of them exists a void

And they will forever forfeit passage across the bridge that they’ve destroyed

In the hollow of our hands we survive

Drifting through the meadow next to mountains in the sky

No method to the madness but in madness they will climb

Why settle in the heavens when the river’s in decline

To arrive is to wither and erode

To rest upon your laurels is to shrivel to the bone

To catch the unexpected ditch the devil that you know

And if you get to where you’re going then there’s nowhere left to go

Before we lay in ash

I feel ascension giving way at last

Into the valley once more now we go

Into the gray, into the ground down below