I hear things I tried to say
Echo back to me the opposite way
Everything I've read spinning round my head
Let's escape to where the air is cold and thin

Oh…I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh…I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know

Ghosts are dancing around the mime
Haunted by the sense of passing time
Dreamers know the way to survive the day
They'll escape the where the air is cold and thin

Oh…I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh…I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know

All the film has been exposed
In my photographic memory, I suppose
When it rain, it pours…screaming through the doors
Every pain and pent-up eyesore I recall

Oh…I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh…I might have believed, though I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know

Oh…I might have believed in a miracle once, Everest
Oh…I might have believed, though now I'm feeling deceived
And for all I care
I don't want to know
I don't want to know


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Everest Lyrics as written by John Robert Conners Stephen Brodsky

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    i can't believe no-one has commented on this. this is clearly the greatest song ever.

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