[Verse 1 — low strings, soft bass] Four Bacabs hold the distant sky I took the center, never asking why A thousand stars stay fixed above You point toward the one that's out of line [Pre-Chorus — ascending harmonies] My shoulders ache beneath the blue I never learned what else to do [Chorus — massive melodic lift] Hold the heavens, hold the line Everybody's world but mine I keep the stars above your head While all my constellations fade I'd let the sky fall into pieces Paint a new one just for me But sleeping hearts beneath these heavens Never chose this misery (Hold it up, hold it up) [Verse 2 — heavy syncopation] You ask for stars that never fall I wonder if I've lived at all [Bridge — stripped to piano] What if I asked the world to share The weight I wasn't born to bear? [Final Chorus — triumphant harmonies] Hold the heavens, change the line Let some of that blue sky be mine The world can stand, the stars can stay And I can live another way (Another way, another day)
