I mount up with waxen wings   High to reach the sun   And I am no further than   When I first begun   So I build a mount of Athos   To shape your form against the sky   With my home in your hands to show all the people why   To show all the people why   (Chorus)   Everything I do   It's not enough for you   Everything I do   It's not enough   It's not enough for you   In the garden of my pride   The lamented lime tree   Too stupid to cry for rain   Fruitless and choked out by weeds   So I write a book of life   Using the best words I can find   For some struggler to snuggle up   When the world becomes unkind   When the world becomes unkind   (repeat chorus)   I find direction in eastbound clouds   And long for what they might have   But when I step into its midst   Its substance I cannot grasp   So I paint a portrait of you   As if you had human disguise   With oil and canvas to be clay   To open up their eyes   Like you opened up my eyes   (repeat chorus twice)