A Soothing State Of Mind

I had a dream that I was a newspaper clipping

Every word that I said was true

I wasn’t so smart

I wasn’t so high

I printed black and white pictures

Of the blue sky

Most of your friends will be just a nervous hobby

Picked up just to distract from some greater pain

They’ll laugh at your jokes

They’ll love you with time

You’ll repay their kindness

With a thousand goodbyes

Most of life is flat as the central valley

As broken and easy to walk as those blasted plains

I plant myself down

I plow myself up

I lay down my head

And can't get back up

It’s the easiest way to fall

To say “I just give up on it all man.”

It’s a soothing state of mind...

A soothing state of mind

I awoke carefree as an airplane falling

Silent with grace through the crimson sky

Engines go numb

Passengers quiet

I never saw the ground

Just the crimson sky