Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

He just finished eating dinner

And stepped outside the cave to smoke

A cigarette he'd made from rolled up photo paper

They were pictures of things back on earth

He looked out on the greyfish white expanse of

Uninhabited terrain he now called home

He'd seen plenty of mirages and imaginary visitors up untilthen

So he wasn't sure what to think when he saw swans

And they were wading on the shores of a pale white lake

That he'd never seen there before

And it was quite beautiful and it was far away

Cause everything beautiful is far away

He knew he was as good as gone

But gone was somewhere he really didn't mind going to

Since the shuttle had crashed many years had passed

And the pictures of his loved ones

That the drew on the walls of the cave had finally faded

He put out his smoke and proceeded toward the lake

Repeating to himself everything beautiful is far away