All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.