String Theory

I travel with a lungful of music, doesn’t weigh a thing

Reed’s built in, breathe through it every time I sing

And I got pockets full of my own hands, head full of back-up plans

Temper walks beside me, a gift I guess from my old man

History: lines on my face

Future: lines on my palm

They say heaven’s guarded by gates, damnation don’t care much who’s calling

But I don’t fall for that line, only one I walk is mine

I carry what I can and I’m still making good time

Bones are hollow, that’s where I keep marrow

This quiver in my lip, that’s just where I keep my arrows

I fold up my ideas I pack em neat inside my skull

I got this string theory: doesn’t work to push, you gotta pull

So I’m pulling for me, and I’m pulling for mine

And they’re easy to read, but you can’t trust the signs

Eyes blur in the heat, heat curves all the lines

Try to keep up, speed up, get your feet up

And match mine.

[CECIL]

We’ll wait til the dawn

And when dawn breaks we’re moving on

[SIMS]

Gravity I never learned

I'm in the air stretch it out spaghetti western

I make it glow then let it go, no effort

That attachment only kept your flame sequestered

I just let it how the ember in my chest burn

I wasn't in for the fame or making profit

I just came to scrape my name into the cinder blocking

Now they're flocking because the feather's same

I just burned the oil, toiled, man I fed the flame

You better aim before they tame you, boy

It's a wild world they're coming for your pelt, young boy

They're tolling all the bells, Tolstoy

It’s war and peace, beast came to eat, old boy

Oh boy.

[CECIL] (Hook)

We’ll wait til the dawn

And when dawn breaks we’re moving on

We’re raised by the laws

But the laws gonna break when we’re moving on

[SIMS]

Gravity is such a pesky thing

[DESSA]

Makes every weight in sight seem like it's worth measuring

[SIMS]

Makes every step you take so tentative

[DESSA]

But if you don't stride with purpose then there's no benefit

[DESSA/SIMS]

I know

[SIMS]

Only on this surface til we float

[DESSA/SIMS]

but why wait?

[DESSA]

I pull for you and throw your hand a rope

[DESSA/SIMS]

I know,

[SIMS]

you can take time or take time by the throat

[DESSA/SIMS]

So tell me when it's time to go

(Hook)