The Atheist’s Burden

Lyrics

I caught a dawn chorus this morning And it was a show-stopper I'm waking early again, and it's great I took a hell of a chance And it's paid off handsomely Now it looks like everything is right And the sky was deep blue And the air was ice-cold I look at the sky quite a lot Don't you know? 'Cause I don't know what the future's got me But it's gotta hold more than the past, any day Now I don't care if the past has left marks on me Who can't assess their own damage with their own two eyes? God knows how we did it I guess we're all just scrabbling around in the dirt We just aim for the sky There's so much pessimism around that it's frightening Makes you wonder when it's all gonna end But if you get up real early, say 4:30, and look around You'll see the world before the cynics have got out of bed