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Messenger

from Mercury by The Wild Allegations

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Don’t shoot the messenger
We’ve flown 50 million miles
Through oblivion’s soldiers
To show you what it means to be alive
Don’t shoot the messenger
We’ve harmed ourselves enough
Estranged our friends and lovers
For a prize that sets us on fire

The days they feel so long when you are all alone
And it starts to break you down
Yeah when you venture the unknown
All that you can be certain of is that you’re collision-bound

And yet still we’ve never reversed the ship
Always forward through the asteroid turbulence
Just to land on a rock that can’t support life
It’s all we can do to feel alive

Don’t shoot the messenger
You’d all be lost without her
She gave up everything
So we could feel together

The days they feel so long when you are all alone
And reality begins to blur

And yet still we’ve never reversed the ship
Always forward through the asteroid turbulence
Just to land on a rock that can’t support life
It’s all we can do to feel alive
So still we set course for the abyss
Unphased by the constant turbulence
We’ve been planning the next ever since we arrived
It’s all we can do to feel alive
In this lightlessness

I know I’m gonna lose you
And you’re gonna find someone else
And even as I breach the edge of the sky I’ll think of you
But if I stayed I know for sure I’d always be gazing up
When we try to touch the sun it’s not because we don’t cherish our hands
No, as our skin melts away we discover
The beauty underneath

And we deliver
That message back to you
So that you can get through all of your terrestrial monotony and pain
Damn right we do it for ourselves
Just like everybody else
So don’t shoot us down
Cuz that shot’ll come back around to you

Don’t shoot
The messenger
You need her
Like the planets need the sun

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from Mercury, released August 17, 2019

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