We need a myth We need an amethyst bridge We need a high hanging cliff Jump, fall and lift We can make it But 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 parents A myth'Cause what we're after is just this A myth'Cause what we're after is just this We need a myth I feel my heart's like a fist Words spilling out of the blessed lips Of any prophet or goddess I need a myth Brought back to life by a kiss Scrape away grey cement Show me the world as it was again As 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 this And 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 myth We're cut adrift We need a mass uplift The world is trembling and weeping Just at the point of believing In a mythThe sun that shines on my head The moon that lights me to bed Were two identical twins Inside 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 forgive And if all we're taught is a trick Why would this feeling persist? And with the truth closing in I must insist 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 it But 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 parents A myth'Cause what we're after is just this A myth'Cause what we're after is just this We need a myth I feel my heart's like a fist Words spilling out of the blessed lips Of any prophet or goddess I need a myth Brought back to life by a kiss Scrape away grey cement Show me the world as it was again As 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 this And 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 myth We're cut adrift We need a mass uplift The world is trembling and weeping Just at the point of believing In a mythThe sun that shines on my head The moon that lights me to bed Were two identical twins Inside 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 forgive And if all we're taught is a trick Why would this feeling persist? And with the truth closing in I must insist We need a myth
