Cheating Death

[CALLIOPE]
You may have heard tell of this man, trapped, strapped shoving trammel, and uphill at that
He’s decided it’s high time he told us his side
He’s a little bit mad, with his bruised, trampled pride

[SISYPHUS]
Enmity
It can’t be me
Three felonies ‘gainst three deities
That’s my story, but I’m capable of more

But what goes up has to come down
I’m cheating death
What goes up has to come down
I’m cheating death

‘Cause I’ve always been outta line
I played with my realm a few times
But reader, here’s the jest
I bested the best of Olympus
I cheated death (Mhm!)

What goes up has to come down
Cheating death
What goes up has to come down
Cheating death

What happened, dear reader, Zeus pissed off Demeter
T’all tracks back to that thunder guy
And pushing this boulder is tiring, I told her
Now Hades thinks I want his wife
You know why?
I’m that guy

[SISYPHUS, spoken]
That's right!

[SISYPHUS]
What goes up has to come down
Cheating death
What goes up has to come down
Cheating death

In my mind
I told no lies
I lived my life
Just trying to get by
Guess that was not enough

A river God gave me
A spring through my city
But once again, that thunder guy
I snitched on a deity
Came back to bite me
Now I don’t get to live or die
Wish I was beheaded, I can’t get ahead
While I’m down here, instead
I push behind, the boulder it rolls now
I’m losing control and down the hill myself I find

What goes up has to come down
Cheating death
That’s what I get
For cheating death