Sisyphus (Pegasus Mix)

by Beth Kinderman

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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn...If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning. When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy arises in man's heart: this is the rock's victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear...But crushing truths perish from being acknowledged...I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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when it all came tumbling
I was still there in the valley
chalk it up as futile
add my failure to the tally
& I hold my children up above
the waters as they're rising
isn't one thing got me here
but none of it's surprising

thought that I was smart enough
to go & cheat the reaper
now I envy ignorance
& just-awakened sleepers
but I know their curse is not my curse
no faith left to be ruptured
though my heart knows better
I'll continue ever upward

(chorus)
cause it's hope that brings the energy
hope that is the enemy
hope at the bottom of every climb
hope that broke my soul
hope that came & pressed my shoulder
once again against this boulder
hope that gets up one more time
& sets the rock to roll

carrying a burden
is the only job worth doing
justifying journeys
toward the paths that I'm pursuing
as the world below me withers
at the mercy of my crawling
into just my footsteps
& the hillside & the falling

(chorus)

"I think next year there will be flowers
because this year, I'm planting flowers"
said every ancestor, as they worked
for times they would never see
the fruit of the tree I didn't grow
was watered by the well I didn't dig
& if these things believed in me
then I guess I still believe

I've been trudging up this mountain
since I was a kid
makes no difference that it's done
but I’ll know that I did
& I'll hold my children up above
the water that I'm treading
don't know where it's going yet
but I know where I'm heading

(chorus x2)

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released August 27, 2023
Justin Hartley - cajon
Beth Kinderman - vocals, acoustic guitar, lyrics & music
Dave Stagner - electric guitar, production & mixing

Rough mix of a song from the upcoming album "Sisyphus: ten songs about hope," released in honor of Beth's 2023 Pegasus Award nomination for Best Writer/Composer.

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Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters Minneapolis, Minnesota

If you like epic song cycles based upon multi-thousand-page fantasy novels, thought-provoking lyrics, violin solos, complex vocal harmonies, huge drums, and weird guitar effects, but you also think that more musicians should write songs about surviving the zombie apocalypse and attempting to sleep with video game characters, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters are the band for you. ... more

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