A Stone Only Rolls Downhill

I wish I could say it would all be all right

(It’ll all be all right)

I wish I could tell you it would all be fine

(It’ll all be just fine)

But a stone only rolls downhill

and these things,

they’ll be what they will

what they will

Someday soon you’ll look out from your hilltop perch

your heart worn out from trying to make sense of the arc

which only bends one way

and you rightly afraid

it don’t seem to be the way that we thought

And I wish I could say it would all be all right

(It’ll all be all right)

I wish I could tell you it would all be fine

(It’ll all be just fine)

But a stone only rolls downhill

and these things

they’ll be what they will

what they will

And oh the inertia

of our ravenous brand of avarice

of our selfishness

It was just too much

to overcome

Now we’re overrun

And I wish I could say it would all be all right

(It’ll all be all right)

I wish I could tell you it would all be fine

(It’ll all be just fine)

Oh how I wish that I could tell you it would be all right

could tell you it’ll all be fine, it’ll work out

Oh how I wish I could tell you it’ll all be fine

(It’ll all be just fine)