No Closer to Heaven
Journey through Shadows: No Closer to Heaven's Reflections
Lyrics
Digging up the bones of the failures I've buried
Digging up past failures that were buried
I'm pulling out my white flags in various stages
Raising surrender flags at different stages
The sun bleached in gray
The sun appears faded or dull
Gonna sew them all together
Intending to connect the bones together
Gonna fashion their bones into a frame
Creating a frame from the fashioned bones
Tie the flags on a string
Tying flags together on a string
Stretched across until they're wings
Turning the flags into wings
I'm no closer to heaven
Expressing a lack of progress towards heaven
I clipped a bird with my car on the freeway
Accidentally hitting a bird with a car
He won't see a burial
The bird won't receive a proper burial
And all week long I kept thinking of death
Contemplating death throughout the week
How me and Hemingway share forehead scars
Comparing forehead scars with Hemingway
I won't meet the same fate that he did
Rejecting a similar fate to Hemingway
In a world that I can't fix
Feeling powerless to fix the world
With a hammer in my grip
Holding a hammer but unable to make a difference
I'm no closer to heaven
Reiterating a lack of progress towards heaven
It feels like the day before something important
Sensing anticipation before something significant
It feels like the first snow of the season that sticks
Experiencing a familiar sense of failure
It's how I'll always feel like a failure
Constantly feeling like a failure in the mind
In the back of my head
Perceiving this feeling in the back of the head
No matter where I've been
Carrying the sense of failure regardless of location
The future feels bright
Feeling optimistic about the future
The glow of the city
Observing the city's glow from a distance
Out across the great plains
Extending across the great plains
With the closer I get
Feeling more distant as heaven is approached
The further I feel away
Experiencing increasing distance despite proximity
I can stay here in the darkness
Choosing to remain in darkness despite brightness
Feels like I'm wandering in circles for days
Feeling lost and wandering in circles
We never reach the gates
Never reaching the gates of heaven
I'll keep walking anyway
Committing to keep walking despite the lack of progress
I'm no closer to heaven
Reiterating a lack of progress towards heaven
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