The Cliff

We’re all rock climbers

Scaling this crag

Weary and bruised

A return

To the base of this cliff

Would be safer

But deep down inside

Our longing is greater

For the top of this cliff

I’m climbing

It’s tough

So very tough

But I know that the view

At the top will be more

Than I ever dared dream

Keep climbing

Muscles burn

Aching fingers

And I fall again

Wanna give up

Keep climbing

When I fall from the rocks

I beat myself up

‘Till I’m too sore to climb

Again

Sometimes it seems I

Won’t reach the top

Keep climbing

Some days I

Don’t even care

Don’t even try

To climb

‘Cause it’s too hard

Crawling back up

Keep climbing

‘Cause if I give up

I’ll lose

They tell me I’m stubborn

Yeah

Climb again

Fall again

Strength giving out

Praying

Maybe this time

I’ll win

Gotta keep climbing

Climbing

Failure looks me

Straight in the eye

Haunts me

Every glance up

Keep climbing

I’m seeing mirages

I tell myself

But they aren’t

So quickly ignored

Keep climbing

Gotta keep climbing

‘Cause one day

You know what?

I’ll reach the top

When I glance up

This time

I won’t see mirages

Won’t give up this time

I won’t lie there at night

Losing my hope

Vowing to reach

The top next climb…

‘Cause I kept climbing, climbing

Didn’t give up

When it got rough

So rough…

Gotta remember

I’m not alone

Yeah

Not climbing alone

‘Cause if you fall

Fall enough times

You’ll recall what they told you

Those who went first

‘You don’t wanna go solo

‘Cause tough doesn’t last

Not so strong as you think

And solo is lonely

Dude, solo is lonely’

Keep climbing

If I keep climbing

I’ll get better at this

Stronger and faster

Inch by inch

Sometimes I think

The going’s too rough

Way too rough

And it gets hard

So hard that I

Can’t go on

And I’m dangling

Here by a thread

A thread on the face of this cliff

I’m tired

So tired

Tired of waiting

Tired of fighting

The cliff goes forever

Into the sky

I can’t see the top

Can’t see the bottom

Thousands of feet loom

Between me and the ground

Between me and the top

I’m dizzy

I’m bruised

I’m not as strong as I used

To think that I was

Nails bleeding from clinging

To the face of this cliff

I want to give up

But deep down inside

I know

I’m not alone

Deep down inside

I know

That it never will be

Too tough

Impossible

For me to scale

When climbing gets tough

I tend to forget

Why I am climbing

I do

I guess when you’re there

The rocks scraping your skin

The cliff seems all

There is in the world

So huge that it’s all you can see

You can’t remember

Don’t even remember

That there’s even a top

To reach

Gotta remember

There is

One day, one day

I’ll crawl up onto

The top of that cliff

Scaled it at last

And go onward

And that cliff

That cliff will be nothing

Nothing

But a distant

Memory