Black Holes, the Stars and You

Walking myself home at night from nowhere

In the window service hours of padlocked bars

Feeling nice, seeing twice with the prance of an

Astronaut on Mars

Slowly spinning in a spiral pattern

Oscillating like the rings of Saturn do

In the orbit of a strange force that

I can't get around or through

Like a magnet on a metal whisper

I am feeling more observed than understood

Am I near? Am I far? Am I here at all?

Who knows? You do

Telescope

Stretches time through a glass

Down to Earth

Reflects light from the past

Telescope

Magnifies all that I aim it on

Black holes, the stars, and you

I was young when I unlearned my accent

So that someday, I could speak to someone like you

So I taught myself to talk like a

Person who I thought that you'd listen to

But sometimes, I just think, "I wish I were you"

Do I really want your love? Of course I do

But just to be half as free as you are, that'd be nice too

Microscope

On a petri plate

Shows a world

Both atomic and great

Microscope

Slide by slide, my hidden pieces are filed in your lab library

You've got a microscope on me

I've got a telescope on you

I see you coming from miles away

And you can see what my brain cells do

My heart is set to explode

It beats your name out in code

Like a thunderstorm getting closer to town

In the asteroid's path

What you wash out in a bath

To the Earth, down the drain

With one eye, magnify to explain