Levitate - Scrivener

You hold your glass like a familiar crutch

The mercy of a sedative that offloads the ballast

And once again you levitate

Walking on the water for a day

You crush the enemy inside the shell

And forget that he’ll return with reinforcements tomorrow

With an axe to grind of the cannibal kind

He takes so much but never lends a dime

When I was young, I had the sense to see myself as one

But you become a cast where all the parts don’t make the sum

So brother, help me out with common dirt

Divert me from a beam of light that won’t stop refracting

And can’t be reversed, the blessing of a curse

Aspire to last for better or for worse

In a living wake, we keep our coffins closed

A footnote to an epilogue that will not be written

The best laid plans were lain to waste

So now we seek a fugitive escape

When I was young, I had the sense to see myself as one

But you become a cast where all the parts don’t make the sum