I know this boulder like a lover knows your skin Every crack and cold spot where my shoulder settles in Ten thousand pushes carved a staircase in the stone Feet find every fault line now—this rock is blood and bone Gods stopped watching somewhere around year two Built a hell to break me then forgot to see it through Started laughing halfway up, not broken—something worse Outlasted the whole damn point, found the blessing in the curse Let it roll, let it roll I've died up here, I already know You can't kill a man who chose Sisyphus rising Stone and soul They want the story clean, the struggle sanitized Founder on a stage with the fractures all disguised Don't want the 3 AM where you're bargaining with the mirror Asking if you've got one more push or if the end is nearer But something in the weight started feeling like a home Something in the failure carved its way into my bone Summit? Man, the summit was never really the prize It's who you become on the climb—that's where the meaning lies Let it roll, let it roll I've died up here, I already know You can't kill a man who chose Sisyphus rising Stone and soul Disappeared into the work, my kids saw a ghost Wife was holding wreckage of the man she needed most You want to know what hell is? It ain't underneath the ground It's the silence in your house when you finally come around Let it come back down again, I wrote the terms myself Turned a sentence into scripture, put the punishment on the shelf Camus said imagine happy, I said imagine whole Not defined by what you carry, but by what you won't let go I'm the man who made the myth mean more than gods designed Every scar a signature, every fall a battle line You can have the peak, the prize, the end of every climb I'll take the push, I'll take the rock—I'll take what's mine Let it roll, let it roll Sisyphus rising Stone and soul
