Part 112: Dabi, Come Down

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[This is a song about talking someone off the ledge. The evil voice is in light. The friend's voice in bold. I think the song can fit different situations and seemed perfect for this chapter.]

"Achilles

Achilles
Achilles come down. Won't you
Get up off
Get up off the roof? You're scaring us
And all of us
Some of us love you

Achilles, it's not much but there's proof. You crazy a--ed cosmonaut

Remember your virtue
Redemption lies plainly in truth

Just humour us


Achilles
Achilles come down
Won't you get up off
Get up off the roof

Achilles

Achilles
Achilles come down, won't you
Get up off
Get up off the roof?

The self is not so weightless
Nor whole and unbroken
Remember the pact of our youth

Where you go, I'm going

So jump and I'm jumping
Since there is no me without you

Soldier on

Achilles
Achilles come down
Won't you get up off
Get up off the roof? Loathe the way they light candles in Rome
But love the sweet air of the votives
Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone
Engage with the pain as a motive

Today of all days

See
How the most dangerous thing is to love
How you will heal and you'll rise above

Achilles

Achilles
Achilles

Jump now
You are absent of cause
Or excuse

So self-indulgent

And self-referential
No audience could ever want you

You crave the applause

Yet hate the attention
Then miss it. Your act is a ruse. It is empty, Achilles
So end it all now
It's a pointless resistance
For you, Achilles
Achilles

Just put down the bottle
Don't listen to what you've consumed

It's chaos, confusion

And wholly unworthy
Of feeding, and it's wholly untrue

You may feel no purpose

Nor a point for existing
It's all just conjecture and gloom

And there may not be meaning

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