We Need A Myth Lyrics - I Am Very Far - Okkervil River

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 

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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 grey cement 

And show me the world as it was again 

As it was in a myth 

Red ribbon to reconnect 

The lady's head 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 

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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 

Were 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