Mushroom

YesterdayI thanked the sun

For almost everything he'd done

Cuz I know it must be hard, to make it

Green in my backyard

Saw a mushroom on a hill, standing proud

And standing still, he told me I would never

Be alone

Turn away from time my child

You'll have your day in the sun

You can run to the end of the world

I knelt down to pray, I asked for redemption today

But no one was listening

How many times round the sun must we go til we've

Begun to believe in an hour or two

Should ask for a ride, can't run, might as well fly

There's a reason I drown in a pool of myself

Everybody needs a piece of the time and if they can't have their own

They can't have mine, tell me where's your serenity

Yesterday they dropped the bomb, and I saw the mushroom come

And we laughed, and then we prayed, underneath the acid rain

And the cars stopped on the freeway, and the sun just disappeared

And my mother's face was frozen in a smile