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
Guess what we're after is just this
A myth
Guess 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
Hey, scrape away gray cement
Show me the world as it was again

As it was in a myth
Red ribbons to reconnect
The lady head's to her neck
And to forget that her throat was ever slit!

Guess what we're after is just this
It's a myth
Guess what we're after is just this

Oh, and I'm sick of all the picture books that try
To steal some old reflection for their light
But desperate measure points to desperate times
And that's why
We need a myth!

We're cut adrift
And we need a mass uplift
The world is trembling and weeping
Just at the point of believing

In a myth
The sun that shines on my head
The moon that lights me to bed
We're two identical twins

Inside of a myth
I heard the voice of a friend
On Lethe's banks, wading in
And he said, "Well, before I forget!"

We need a myth
And as we lean in to kiss
To get two nails through the wrist
To get covered in blood
To get covered in spit and to forgive

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