Hold the Heavens

[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)