From A Balance Beam

There is a man holding a megaphone, he must have been the voice of God

The bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block

Well, they must have been attached to wires

I'd seen one laying in the lawn with a broken arm, so I called 911

Well that's one less founded opinion

One more cause for a dispute

So the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews

And they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth

It was a spectacle

No, I, I mean a miracle

So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam

A gymnasium of eyes all were holding on to me

I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping

It was a small mistake

Sometimes that is all it takes

Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the time is right

When the planets will align

There will be no planets to align

Just the carcass of the sun

And little painted marbles spinning senseless through an endless black sky

It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change

And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been

I emerged to find the parallels were fewer

I was cleansed

I looked in the mirror

And someone new was there

But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand

And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in

But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock

And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are freezing."

Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode

Because a day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come

And we'll finally know the way out of here

And I'll throw away this wrinkled map

And my chart of stars and compass, cracked

And I'll climb that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green

And we won't have to worry no more

No we won't have to wonder again

About how this song or story ends

About how this song and story will end