Fail Better - Clock Opera

When you think the world is turning

At a different speed to you

And you write another list

Of things you’ll probably never do

And you feel your dreams divided

By the median and mean

Your imagination drying

From a river to a stream

No matter, try again

Fail again, fail better

Everything is coming good

We’re going our own way

No matter, try again

Fail again, fail better

Heaven is never closer

Never further away

And so on and on we go

Like a spinning barber’s pole

Rising up on a shepherd’s tone

Still together, still alone

We will walk across the embers

We will walk across the coals

We will walk the road from limbo

In recursion, on parole

No matter, try again

Fail again, fail better

Heaven is never closer

Never further away

No matter, try again

Fail again, fail better

Everything is coming good

Oh darlin' just you wait

Day breaker, rain maker

Boneshaker ever more

Keep failing main sailing

Myth making ever more