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Sisyphus

by Xander Mancino

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Cover Art Inspired by Sisyphus (1548) - Titian and Penguin Classics

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I woke up today
Feeling like I wouldn't dare to move
I might as well be a beetle in these sheets
At least then I wouldn't worry 'bout the rest of the week
If only life were as sweet as sleeping
Or death were as sweet as dreaming
For with each tomorrow slowly creeping
We grunt and sweat, yet we keep on breathing

So I tell myself to go
Back to bed
For another day
Can only muddy up your head
And so why
Do I still get up each time?

I woke up today
Feeling like a kind of puppet
Beneath a hand that pulls and swings
To move my limbs on marionette strings
You know that no one controls everything
No matter the anger that brings
No matter the words that I sing
The bell that tolls for you forever rings

And so I tell myself it will
Be alright
What's just one more day
In the rest of your life
And so I
I get up every time

'Cause Sisyphus
He never gave up
So neither will I
I'll push that stone
Up that mountaintop
'Til the day that I die

I walk through my days
Feeling like another prisoner
Bound to the chain-like folds of my brain
Between the soft grey matter where I am detained
And what a cruel warden lives inside me
For the inspiration he's denied me
So I sit at the piano idly
With fingers flapping but no thoughts to guide me

So it seems that there's no way
To be free
So I ignore everything
That he says to me
And then I
Can get on with my life

'Cause Sisyphus
He never gave up
So neither will I
I'll push that stone
Up that mountaintop
'Til the day that I die

Don't get me wrong
I love the life I'm living
But sometimes it all
Can just seem so unforgiving
This unrelenting forward motion
That causes whirlwinds of emotion
And in the deafening commotion
I forget to let it be, and

Maybe you
Can join me back here
And push this stone up too
And when it slips
And tumbles down from the peak
We'll laugh and enjoy the view

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released November 16, 2018
Xander Mancino - All instruments and production

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Xander Mancino Los Alamos, New Mexico

Xander Mancino is a 22 year old singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from New Mexico. He plays keyboards, drums, bass, and guitar. Recording and producing entirely in a home studio, Xander creates his music by multi-tracking every instrument himself. His style incorporates elements of jazz, soul, funk, gospel and folk. Some influences are Jacob Collier, Donald Fagen, and Sting ... more

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