South Dakota

I was flying into Chicago at night

Watching the lake turn the sky into blue green smoke

The sun was setting to the left of the plane

And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow

In 27D I was behind the wing

Watching the landscape roll out

Like credits on a screen

I said look, look to your left passengers

Look, look to your right

You can pretend that you're here from outer space

And this, this is your very first sight

The earth looked like it was lit from within

Like a big man-made electrical ball

Out of the farmlands and into the gri

The plan of a city was all that you saw

And all of these people sitting totally still

As the ground raced beneath them thirty thousand feet down

I said look, look to your left passengers

Look, look to your right

You can pretend that you're here from the fifth century

And this, this is your very first flight

Then I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video

The stewardess came back and checked on my drink

And I swear that she looked just like Brigitte Bardot

As I had on my walkman and I had on those eyes

That you get when your circumstance is movie size

And I said look, look to your left passengers

Look, look to your right

You can pretend the plane's going to crash in 5 minutes

And this, this is your very last sight

You better look, look to your left passengers

Look, look to your right

Cause I'm going to take this plane out in less than 5 minutes

And this, this is your very last sight