Time Can't Fly a Plane

I saw you at the airport

Sitting on the carousel

You were waiting to be chosen

From the menagerie of shells

Oh what a strange tradition

How can you fly so well

If you take along your baggage

You said your number one advantage

Was playing piano with your toes

And when I asked what it was good for

You said you didn't know

Then you cried over the question

You hadn't thought of that before

You knew that it meant something more

Let me go back let me go back

Go back to the day I was born day I was born

'Cause I'm only getting older

But time can't fly a plane

I heard you climbed the highest mountain

So you'd be close enough to pray

But if you fall off of your mountain

You will go with God today

But if he turns you into a bird

Then you could just fly away

Oh wouldn't that be something

Would you be better off that way?

But a bird is a word a bird is just a word

Just like on the day I was born day I was born

And I'm only getting older

But time can't fly a plane

Over the ocean

See the pilot eclipse the sun

As if to say

"Oh time don't fly away"

Let me go back let me go back

Go back to the day I was born day I was born

'Cause I'm only getting older

But time can't fly a plane

Let me go back let me go back

Go back to the day I was born day I was born

Just leave me at the airport

Where time can't fly a plane

I saw you making phone calls

To the prisoner on the moon

He lost his way to find salvation

You lost your way to find salvation