Gene Micofsky - Highs and Lows Lyrics

I'm on fire, and it feels me up to my lungs
And I scream and I shout, 'til I burn it all out
While I climb every mountain side that I find
'Til I'm just too high, where a god can't die
And I fall, I descend with grace as I fall
Though my bones may break
And this heart may ache
I will have lived it all

I'm a pious man, I'm a paper man
The pages fold into your hands
The midnight oil, burns out with day
Smoldered hair, skin is gray

I'm on fire, and I'm raging out
My desires, oh they drag me down to the harrowed ground
But I rise, like a man reborn, and I rise
Above the praise and the scorn
Where it matters no more
And I'll find a peace of my pure design
When I've tamed this beast
And the weight is released
I will have lived it all

I'm an open book with encrypted lines
The jacket's clean, broken spine
The highs and lows, the undertow
I'm not equipped to keep this ship afloat

I will rise, and I'll fall
I will rise
Lift off the guise and I'll fall from the skies