Romancing The Ether Songtext
von Hemina

I made the most of what I was dealt
I know when talking broad strokes it′s not a lot
I gave so much more than I ever took
I guarantee
Can't I ever catch a break?
I know this would be solace for someone
But when has that ever helped me?
Will I cry when the clock strikes four?

Will I even feel a thing?
It′s never enough
Always competing with you
It's never enough
I'm always searching as you look the other way
It′s the same everyday
You′re always further
Further away
Making the most of my time here, now
Woah
Ah


It's never enough
Always competing with you
It′s never enough
I'm always searching as you look the other way
It′s the same everyday
Everything's further
Further away
Making the most of my time here
Without you


Somehow we all reach for the stars
Somehow it always rips us apart
The quest for money and status leaves scars
But somehow we still romance the dark
The ether: the space between me and you
(There′s nothing beautiful there)
Follow me (Follow me)
Off the beaten path
Won't you follow me? (Follow me)
Don't waste your time
Because you can never get it back
So break a leg
And let the best man win
When the clock strikes four
Am I a good man?
Look at the green I bleed
I burn relationships like cigars
And smoke all that′s left
For the win
It′s because you shackled me
In your loss
(Amen)
You passed the torch between men
Yes, you did!
Follow me (Follow me)
Off the beaten path
Won't you follow me? (Follow me)
Don′t waste your time
Because you can never get it back
So break a leg
And let the best man win
When the clock strikes four
Yeah

I am now an afterthought
Abandoned left to grow (Left to grow)
Will I tread this path of yours?
Another night echo? (Echo)
Will I be a father or will I die alone? (Die alone)
And will I get the chance to lead a life of normalcy? Oh no!

Follow me (Follow me)
Off the beaten path
Won't you follow me? (Follow me)
Don′t waste your time
Because you can never get it back
So break a leg
And let the best man win
When the clock strikes four

I have never lived a day without
Thinking of your final deceit
I'm in a race against the lantern′s light
But it's still burning bright
Never cared for fate or the stars
But this is surely an omen
I'm in a mortal fear of the hour-hand′s strike
I′m you to the second
Who's to say?
Who′s to know?
Fallen prey to superstition
Haven't I learned one single thing?
Another night echo
And as the chime rang bells of four
And I stood there as I stand before you
Death′s hand lost its grip on me
But the cloud's still overhead

I don′t like to think about the void
Though it comes for all of us
You and I will die eventually
Are you scared?
Because I am
I'm pretty sure I don't believe
There′s a god up there in the constellations
Sheepishly, I look to the sky just to see your star
It comforts me
To know you may be lying there
Embraced by clouds

Was anyone even close to right?
Is nirvana up there that extends to infinity?
Past the cumulus and the stratosphere?
Is there something we can′t conceive with our pea-brains?
I really hope you were right
But I badly think you were so fucking wrong
Because a lifetime without a father's love
Is like a peace offering with no white dove
I′m pretty sure I don't believe (Don′t believe)
There's a god up there in the constellations
Sheepishly, I look to the sky just to see your star
It comforts me
To know you may be lying there
Embraced by clouds
Deeper than the deepest sea
Out of range of submarines
You were never there for me
Because you gave up too early, oh
You gave up it all
Given an ultimatum by your bond to your family of three
Was there a problem?
Maybe it was me

Embraced by clouds

(Pretty sure I don′t believe)
(There's a god up there in the constellations)

Embraced by clouds
Without night-time
The sun would have no place at all (all)
No yin or yang (yang)
No night and day
No rivalry with the moon
You are (are)
Embraced by clouds

Learning to appreciate this life more than ever
I want to be here
I need to
I was born to
Finding happiness in the little things
That's all we really ever have
Ooh
But I never believed in heaven
But for you, I′d tell a lie
And I said a prayer
But it really wasn′t mine
But my heart really meant it when I cried
I'm still a broken man
I just don′t know if I have it in me

Show me your love
Show me your light
I couldn't find you
In my heart
In my soul
In the lies I told myself
Nor in my mind or my dreams
I imagine a world where I never grow old
I have a life to live
Because I can′t let a dead end ever
Ever become my legacy
I imagine the cold where lost souls drift alone
I don't even know what I′m missing
But I know it's not this
Down will come baby

I'm pretty sure I don′t believe
There′s a god up there in the constellations
Sheepishly, I look to the sky just to see your star
It comforts me
To know you may be lying there
Embraced by clouds

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 intro′s
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 loveheart that's shaped with
Rose petals in a four-star penthouse
I'm on the nose
With no sense of irony
Yet 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 my life unfold like I'm on camera
A blockbuster flop
A C-grade plot
Yet 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 cliche of boyhood millenia 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

(Don′t call it quits, don′t call it)
I'm calling it quits
It′s not like it's empty
It′s filled with plenty
In spite of it all
I think I was miscast here
(Don't call it quits, don′t call it)
Woah
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
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

I was never bound by revelations
I saw no end in holy books
I pen my own devastation
For no rapture did I see come
And as the clock strikes four
I′ll be embraced once more
As I romance the ether
And as the clock strikes four
I'll be embraced once more
As I romance the ether