Arms Like Atlas

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You are your father's son
You carry the world with arms like Atlas
You aren't the only one
Whose shoulders are bent from heavy sadness

You think you're alone
But what you don't know
you've been among friends all along

I'm not asking for a handout
I just want this to be the way it was before
I never wanted us to stand out
I just need you to pick yourself up off the floor

You won't step in the sun
You bathe in the shadows, hiding your heart from us
The battle's already won
Yet still you wallow, when will you learn to trust?

(Spoken word)
And though you summoned all the might you could muster
You couldn't shoulder the burdens that your life had put you under
It was only within that solitary struggle that you learned that
You couldn't pull that great weight by the sweat of your own brow
You'd elected for so long to allow the offer of aid to pass you by
That you'd begun to consider your reason for doing so in the first place
It was at that moment, at that last of your lonely wanderings
That you took hold of the outstretched hand, you trusted it, you let in
And you realized:
It is within our own most crushing defeats
That reside our greatest victories
Our greatest accomplishments, and our greatest of strengths
When we rely on one another, we lean on one another, and we love one another

Don't the carry the weight of the world on your back
This is not the way to make up what you lack

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from Arms Like Atlas, released May 1, 2013

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