it's beyond painful waiting when the day you're waiting for will mean, at last, there is beauty in this world.
(we're not ready, but they'll keep pushing until we stop pretending not to be. and you'll see tiny figures crawling towards the finish line, along some forgotten highway, like the ones in the picture books you read back when you still believed. the clause states that if you go, i'll leave too. so why can't he be the one to save you?)
"i've got friends in highly low places"