Bright Eyes From A Balance Beam Lyrics

From A Balance Beam Lyrics

There is a man holding a megaphone, so 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 is 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 were all 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
those little painted marbles spinning senseless through an endless black sky.
[and so it never started and it will never stop just like I am and you are] 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 have 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 will
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 love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and
then we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever wonder again about how
this song or story ends about how this song and story will end.