The Shallows - Misery Signals

Leo Tolstoy

«Truth, like gold, is to be obtained

Not by its growth, but by washing away

From it all that is not gold»

Wash it all away, this replica, wash it all away

We reveal only truths that we have chosen

And tell only secrets of the surface

We offer up our skin, the measure of our worth

As we wade into the shallows

Wash it all away, this replica

The rising tied will wash it all away

Rais the border and the boundaries

We separate lesser evils each in their own compartments

The view from this lense by it’s design divides us

Divides us, what of the truth

Only movement in the reaches of gravity

Can mean anything

Towers were built like castles from the sand

Like statues of tyrants

The tide is coming in to wash them away

The towers were built like castles in the sand

The rising tide will wash them away