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'Cause what we're after is just this
	A myth'Cause 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
	Scrape away grey cement
	Show me the world as it was again
	As it was in a myth
	A red ribbon to reconnect
	The lady's head to her neck
	And to forget that her throat was ever slit'
	Cause what we're after is just this
	It's a myth'
	Cause what we're after is just this
	And I'm sick of all these picture books that try
	To steal some old reflections for their light
	But desperate measures point to desperate times
	And that's why
	We need a myth
	We're cut adrift
	We need a mass uplift
	The world is trembling and weeping
	Just at the point of believing
	In a mythThe 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, ["Before I forget..."]
	We need a myth
	As we lean in to kiss
	To get two nails through the wrist
	To get covered in blood
	And to get covered in spit
	And to forgive
	And 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