I bought up all the gold in the valley
Hoping Midas might be my ally 
If he saw he didn’t have to work 
I know it’s got to hurt
When everything you touch turns to dust
Or into something you can’t trust 
And he just sauntered into the scene 
And saw me on some foreign beam 
Catching light and in the rays 
He found that it all decays 
And rots and fails 
But something in our wind sets sails
And we laugh and avenue 
Down our red and blue 
And I stare into the sky 
The monuments in his eye 
As they look down at me 
But isn’t that history 
What are we now 
She rips into something and I allow 
Her to tear for once 
And realise that when people call us cunts 
They don’t know what they’re talking about 
And when you realise all the self doubt 
Falls away 
And there’s nothing she can say 
To take away the memory of knowing what you are 
And the inner star 
Speaks to me and asks me to be quiet 
And the riot 
Hits me like a loaded gun 
But once the shot has fired I realised there’s only one 
In the barrel and it’s not enough
To kill the space that holds our love 
So I retreat to some far defender 
So I can hold what I remember 
In my heart close to my breast 
Like Mother Mary passing the test 
When she acquiesced
To what wanted to be born 
And when the veil of the temple was torn 
In three days God raised him high 
And showed us that man cannot die 
When the will is one 
And though it may have been done 
It was not over 
I know because he chose her 
To be spared 
And the eyes all glared 
As I carried my books 
Trying to keep my eyes from their looks 
And they’ll never know how near their spear 
Came to making everything crystal clear 
In an ancient part of me 
But their bribery 
Could never sell my soul 
Because something about the way the waves roll 
Crashed the silicon 
And for a moment the pain was gone 
And the girl woke up in the dark 
It was nothing but it was a start 
And as she swam upward toward the light 
I knew that I would be alright