So we drank deep of the sun
How it dripped like nectar on our goblet tongues
And trickled down our icy throats
To warm us in the hollow of our bones
Keep me blind enough to see
Keep me dumb so I can speak
And I heard you after dark
As you hummed the muffled chorus of your heart
And I heard your sleeping song
As you etched some ancient script into the lawn
Keep me blind enough to see
Keep me dumb so I can speak
Do you hear me when I call?
Do you know yourself at all?
You're the hummingbird I caught
The fledgling thing I'll keep till it flies off
And when your daisy dreams are spent
You'll wake with clouds of pollen on your breath
How the waking life deceives
Hides the truth in all our dreams
Do you hear me when I call?
Do you know yourself at all?
Domesticated, we fill our eyes with halogen
And watch projectors spit out copied images
Fleeting shadows flit on cave walls of the mind
Our flickering silhouetted cinematic lives
We're stowaways inside our heads
We're sleeping animals
We blink, we speak, we know our names
But we can't explain ourselves
We're runaways on broken legs
Crippled automatons
We brace our bones, we splint our steps
But we're aimless all along