Gravity
I can’t stop myself from this complete unmasking
I can’t answer all the questions you’re not asking
There’s nothing more to show you to be taken as evidence
if you won’t listen to your own experience
Truth – hiding in a corner
Your faith’s in your own mind – you close the book
And you jump – you land – it’s gravity
They told you you were born to fly
You’ve got to try to answer the sky
But you’re tangled and tied to the trees… it’s gravity… gravity
The only place to hide is here on stage
Take your tenderness and stab it with frozen rage
Sending words like searchlights into places cold and haunted
When I caught the ghost, he couldn’t tell me what I wanted
Beauty – with her noose around my neck
My faith is in my image – and the candle’s burning out
And I step – I trip - … gravity
They told me I was born to fly
I saw stars align, but it wasn’t a sign
of the holy divine, or the key… to gravity… gravity
The only time I talk to you is when you can’t hear me
Boil your presence down, reducing you to theory
What I say to people isn’t any of your business
Whether I’ll get what I deserve, or discover love’s forgiveness
Justice – mumbles from the podium
Our faith is in ourselves, rings the funeral bell
And we run – and stumble – damn gravity
They told us we were born to fly
And we continue the war – soul from reason divorced
by that unfeeling force we won’t see… … gravity
One constant on every planet, no matter what the gravity -
A feeling of falling
© KJL 1/2007
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