The Atheist's Burden - Disco Inferno

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 in store for 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 where 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