The Atheist’s Burden

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 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 when 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