Reality

You did what you saw in the movies

Someone put you under a spell

In some world, it is always happening

The next morning everything went to hell

And I play back the tapes as often as I can

But we weren't meant to have memories this long

The pictures degrade into snowflakes, dancing

Any answer I hoped for is gone

And that must be what drove them all crazy

They were the first ones allowed to grow old

The spark goes but the body keeps living

You kiss your children but they just feel the cold

And it just slipped away on one morning

And when they woke up they found it was gone

They still sang songs and made merry

But deep down, they knew that something was wrong

So they called me up, and said "it's not enough

We needed new things to feel

Dead memories and the color of grief

Won't you help us to make it real?"

Well if you can take it when the mountains break

And the sea swallows up the sky

You can ride on me, I'll take you beyond belief

I will show you the reason why

In the best scene of the movie

I am driving a car that won't stop

Distracted for sure fighting some psychic war

We all were too wasted to stop

You said you'd take me away on a starship

But baby, why'd you have to wait so long?

In the transept, in the apse

In a selfish moment's lapse

I fell asleep waiting for that far-off song

So they gave it up, said "it's all too much

I can't take it if this is how it feels"

Got to pay the piper, hire another writer

To tell you what is real

But if you can take it when the mountains break

And the sky spells satanic designs

You can call me up, I will call your bluff

And you can finally lose your mind

I was warned of all this

Didn't listen

Didn't listen

Please wake up I need to talk to you right now

I got bored of all this

And didn't listen

Didn't listen

Muttering BLID to make it through the next twelve minutes

I caught a glimpse of myself

And fell right in

I fell right in

Didn't know that there was only one way out

No stage right

No stage left

Oh, hold on to this thread

And don't look back

Hold on to this thread

And don't look back

Hold on to this thread

And don't look back

Hold on to this thread

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me

The earth fell out from under me