martyr moves

Feist

How can I know what to do?
What s harder than finding my place in the truth
Is to keep it a secret once I do
Cause it might hurt someone more than I would want to

To sit in a dream while it dims
Will the loneliness crush me more alone or with him?
And what do I think I might prove
If I make
These martyr moves?

Three months
Nine months
Three years
Six years
Twelve years
Twenty years
Forty years
Eighty years

My hope is a flickering flame
Which I ve found it increasingly hard to explain
But I ll try

In the family forge, I got burned
Taught a story in so many words
That it s b?st to prepare for the worst
And to mak?
These martyr moves
And to make
These martyr moves