Revelations (Romancing the Ether, Pt. 5) Lyrics

I've been here before in movies from my childhood
But what happens next is on me...
I'll flesh out the details though I'm not a great director
I give up at intros
Just a bustling score with no dialogue

Now the final page is empty
I'll try my best at a hero's ending

I paint with brushstrokes as wide as my forearm
A subtle proposal like a love that's shaped with
Rose petals in a four-star penthouse
I'm on the nose with no sense of irony
But people would miss me

Blessed with a brain and equal parts feeling
Cursed some would say and I don't think I'd argue
Events of life unfold like they're on camera
A blockbuster flop, a C-grade plot
But people would miss me

Except this is not fiction
This living contradiction
It's as real as it gets and I'm dead set on giving up

Ever since I was a child
I was told that I was different
That I was a cut above
But that did nothing to stop me from falling down
Written in scribbles on parchment and stone
The cliché of boyhood millennia old
Except for some trivia, we're all the same
We're not immune from the dark rain

Now the final page is empty
I'll try my best at a hero's ending
Not all heroes wear capes
Memes got one thing right
Take a picture, it'll last longer
If indeed it lasts at all

Solo: Skene

Don't call it quits, don't call it
It's not like it's empty
It's filled with plenty
It's as real as it gets and I'm dead set on giving up

Now the final page is empty
I'll try my best at a hero's ending
Not all heroes wear capes
Memes got one thing right
Take a picture, it'll last longer

We live and die by the hands of men like ourselves
But I can't
I won't reduce my life to a sentence on a post-it note