[Verse 1]
I've been introducing pickaxes to the granite in patterns
I crack open the earth like it's cast in ceramic
I hack at frozen dirt and permafrost for paychecks
While the current fells, load the cart with feldspar just to roll it to the apex
Days end, the work doesn't
Greyscale the world's functions
Veins tend to burst open
With gems that might be worth something
No curmudgeons or footdraggers in these monochrome fields
If you're lethargic, hit the cabinet
You can swallow those pills
It all gets revealed in due time
A land drawn with crude lines and specked rocks by moonlight
The rare hues slide into the palms of upper management
Retreat to the bottom, they come up in the sand again
I've been sashing gems
Though I know it's all for not
Lets just say the last two who got caught
Didn't get the long stern talk
Hearthstone carved from fossils come up every now and then
And coworkers who succumb to the heat exhaustion
Sleep beneath the flowerbeds

[Verse 2]
I sleep beneath the thoughts of moonstone and star corundum
I've seen my fellow men with noses that were stark and dusted
In the darkened junctions of the tunnel system
There's been whispers of a revolutions under thumps of pistons
I'm not seduced by the thought
Well not yet at least
My only friends are simulveins and grains of olivine
Not sure if I ought to be more than just a cog in this machine
Brought the sun out with this pickaxe
It's a stage of entropy

[Chorus]
Sisyphus
Steady rolling boulders up the summit
Sunday sundown watch 'em settle
Monday sunup watch 'em plummet
Yes I'm Sisyphus
Static balanced pebbles on the brink
Sunday sundown watch 'em settle
Monday sunup watch 'em sink

[Chorus]
Sisyphus
Steady rolling boulders up the summit
Sunday sundown watch 'em settle
Monday sunup watch 'em plummet
Yes I'm Sisyphus
Static balanced pebbles on the brink
Sunday sundown watch 'em settle
Monday sunup watch 'em sink