Song A Day #502: Fire In The Sky

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Jonathan Mann

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Published on May 17, 2010 1:39:27 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-M-5pWtAU

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there's a fire in the sky
it's a tower made of clouds
and it's power rings out over creation 
meanwhile on the ground
waves of frozen sound
break upon the backs of stale frustration
and citizens wake up at the sensation 
rub their eyes

no melody or words
could have cut quite like the sword
swung by the hand of evolution
to live and grow and die
without ever knowing why
knowing how to ask but finding no solution
calling it divine retribution
cut the cords

we're not abandoned
we are abandoning 
before we learned to talk
we had to learn to sing
without a plan
we can't demand a thing
we can't demand a thing

i was on my way to school
i saw her cross the street
and her power sent out waves upon the pavement
i pulled over then and there
i had to catch my breath
and stare in this delicate amazement 
i felt utterly exposed, stripped naked
to the bone

when she came up to the car
and asked, "do you know where we are?"
i couldn't tell if she was serious or joking
i tried to say yes
and planet earth, i guess
but the sounds out of my mouth were more like choking
in the distance some peeper frogs were croaking
to the moon

we were married
it was the first of may
and i carried her and she carried me
the entire way
it was scary
but it was the best day of my life

in my house there is a room 
and in that room there is a drawer
and in that drawer is a list of all my worries
it's an illustrated list
with notes an annotations
and entries like nature's wrath and fury
and brain aneurysms from being in a hurry
i eat too fast

sometimes i go to sleep 
thinking i'll never wake
is it only in my mind these thoughts are turning
or do i die every night
to be revived by the light
of the tower in the clouds softly burning
and the pitter patter of the rain finally returning
as it hits the glass

out the window
the sky is overcast
if i could fly i'd follow birds
on their lonely paths
but i swallow all my pills
and am fading fast 
close my eyes

i find the space between
wakefulness and sleep 
is the very best time for free association
and most of my ideas
the ones i throw away and keep
come in the shower between exfoliations 
not on the mountain top in mediation
no not at all

jesus said that money 
and religion didn't mix
and so they built corporate mega churches
jesus said that being poor
was the the only way to live
and so we arrest the homeless like they're walking curses
we cast them out as if there were nothing worse
than being poor

there's no space there
for interpretation
it's an amazing case of blind
manifestation 
no lonely history
celebration
defies explanation