Undergravel: The Nerve of the Sky (Space Germany)

[Intro - low restrained vocal] You ask if I have seen the sky Like I forgot to look up Like forty billion tonnes of city Are only something in the way [Verse 1] You come down clean in borrowed boots With dust put on at the factory You photograph the leaking pipes Then leave before they start to bleed You ask how people live down here How long the dark can make us stay I watch your elevator close And hear you call that getting away [Pre-Chorus - rising tension] You think above means more alive You think the top invented light Every floor beneath your feet Is doing something right [Chorus - massive heavy release] Oh the nerve of the sky The nerve of the sky Calling us buried While we hold it high You live above us Not beyond us Get that through your head The nerve of the sky Looking down On everything That keeps it overhead [Verse 2] Your windows sell a better world Your restaurants sell lower class Your jackets copy maintenance cuts At prices we would never ask You say the underground has soul Like hunger gave us something pure You like the rust when it is framed You do not like what rust is for You ask if we still dream of climbing Like staying here must mean we failed Somebody welded your foundation While your morning coffee cooled [Pre-Chorus - harder vocal] You think distance makes you clean You think height makes suffering small Every tower has a bottom Every bottom takes the load [Chorus - crushing layered vocal] Oh the nerve of the sky The nerve of the sky Calling us buried While we hold it high You live above us Not beyond us Get that through your head The nerve of the sky Looking down On everything That keeps it overhead [Breakdown - sparse half time] Come down without a camera Come down without a guide Come down when the lift is broken And the emergency lights die Come down when water tastes like metal Come down when the ceiling groans Come down when somebody says That crack has always been there Then tell me Which world is real [Bridge - grinding escalation] We know there are stars above us We know there is wind somewhere We know sunlight hits your windows We know you breathe easier air That is not revelation That is geography You did not invent the heavens By living closer to them [Final Chorus - full weight] Oh the nerve of the sky The nerve of the sky Calling us buried While we hold it high You live above us Not beyond us You stand where we maintain The nerve of the sky Calling this nowhere Then sending down the weight again The nerve of the sky The nerve of the sky You call us underneath We call you What is standing On our ceiling [Sudden stop]