Lyrics

There’s a mast on a hill
A cantankerous tree
Mutinied, still taunting
The fool and the sea
Dreams become trite
When they’re lived out by others
Spectate the glory
That whistles by me

Somehow I listen
Somehow I see
Somehow I know
Just ain’t meant to be
But I’m gnarled and I’m rooted
And broken by nothin’
These stars, they just
Spin around me

Stand on the dock
Of my tiny vast ocean
Speechless to rapture
And those to be saved
Thoughts never mentioned
They never make waves
‘Cept they gnaw and they ache
When the truth is betrayed

But when all has been spoken
When all’s come to pass
Viewpoints on vistas
They crumble, they crash
And their words will decay
To the letters that make ‘em
Drown in the quiet
Around me

But it drives me to shake
The hand of my fate
Drives me to bow
To the love and the hate
The stars, they still glisten
The wind still don’t listen
Resolve to unsolve
While I wait and I wait

Maybe no heaven
Maybe no hell
Maybe’s for certain
Has nothin’ to sell
But I’m gnarled and I’m rooted
And broken by nothin’
These stars, they still spin
Around me
These stars, they still spin
Around me