Verse

The Wonderment

Jeremy Hurtt•December 14, 2024 at 4:43 AM CST

we are still forming

Verse 1

Up and at em, bind and batten, move on, glue on silk and satinDay's a wasting, chase is hastening, clatter matters, choose and chastenKeep it movin, skip the gluten, mind the time it's surely scootinClock is rollin, tick tock tollin, precious freshness, seconds stolenWatch the leader, bottom feeder, fate might break right when you need herTake the ticket, they can pick it, we should be good, will is wickedLife's a contest, fight and conquest, man will stand still longing longestOwn your neighbor, swing your saber, careful there, though, life is paperDespite how stiff our stern demands, few things turn out as we've pl(anned

Chorus

And) the light's been cominFrom the end of the tunnelFor a very, very, very, very, very long timeAt a hunnert eighty sevenThousand miles a secondJust to reach these eyes of mineAnd it has informed meThat we are still formingFrom the fountainStraight through to the fallCaught up inThe WondermentOf it all

Verse 2

There are folks who never broke through outer doubters, never hope toThey just float by, mostly broke by these paths, recast as their fociiKeep on schedule, reap the metal token bloat in which they settleNo time for chance, no dine nor dance, main thing's stay clean, faith in financeLove is risky, works like whiskey, leaves you free to breaking brisklyHope is vicious, wine of wishes, drunk by fungii-growing missesDreams are wasteful, mean and hateful, foe to those who can't be faithfulDare not greatly, bare not bravely, exist dismissed, softly, faintlyOn the rocks and on the sand, the cost's the same to cross this l(and

Chorus

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