Sarah Slean - Modern Man lyrics

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This is modern man

Leaning out a window

Lonely for the music of

A ferris wheel or birthday party

Time will take his hand

Lead him to the gate and

When he turns around, he knows

He can't go back

He can't have Eden, no

The road is overgrown

At the end of words

At the end of mathematics

Mystery absurd

At once both fascinates and terrifies and

Oh, but nevermind

He's working on the numbers

Take apart the dominos

To quantify the miracle

But oh

There are those things that he will never know

Though he can feel them

Pearl of blue and white

Dangling like an orchid

From the unseen fishing rod

Of some amazing architect

Or not

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?

Maybe the lies are all that we've got

But aren't they beautiful?