Waiting for a Miracle

toss me to the whale

i'll come out unbroken, i'll come out unflinching

i'll come out reborn

toss me out the window

i know i'll have earned it, i know i'll have deserved it

i'll clean up the mess

with all the weight of your precious demands

i'll give no more to this cause

so i'll walk out into the waves

my footsteps are light, my mind is empty

i'll do it alone

but when you come to find me

i'll jumpstart your heart, clear your throat, open your eyes

i'll clean up the mess, yeah, the mess

with all the weight of your precious demands

i'll give no more to your selfish sins

we're all waiting for a miracle

to waken us from our dreams

we'll sacrifice our first-born sons

to come away from this clean

i'll wallow in the mud

if you sound sincere, if you ask me politely

if you ask me at all

and if you pull away

i'll open my hands, return to life, return to you,

i'll clean up the mess

we're all waiting for a miracle

to waken us from our dreams

and we'll swear to ourselves that the best there is

couldn't be as good as it seems

please take me up

take me above the trees

and into the light up above

take me through your thoughts as they line up one by one

let me ask things of you until you're screaming "enough!" and we're done

let me be your existence, let me temper your love and we're done

let me silence the why and we're done