Through the Mountains of Melancholia

Lyrics: Russell Eck/Morgan Eck Music: Russell Eck/Jared Klein Momentum becomes music as you dance to the drum of your own progression Kinetics born of excitement, of no alternative, must maintain impetus or risk sliding into old habits Waltz of quintessence The light begins to fade away All the hope that brought you this far remains within It remains within your soul, glimmering, shining Guiding you home to start over Through the mountains of your melancholia Waiting for the sun to rise over the gates gilded with sorrow Lift your weary spirit skyward to fly, for the sun, the sun will rise again Into snares dressed up as familiarity Into a noose of family ties The thread that binds us holding you down until you cannot breathe and still asks for the air in your lungs With each step you shed pieces of the encumbrance Watch as traditions tumble down Even your shadow seemingly adheres to the distance you placed between now and then Against odds you find breathing easier the higher you go Solar pinprick is now a face and you gaze Goddess of red in a sea of apparitions Guiding beacon on which to set your compass Gaze upon its expression Aspect like a lighthouse keeping course Keeping the things that skulk under the surface, itching and writhing Permeating in your mind like a sickness ready to infect your skin with the rash of apathy