Pandora's Lullaby

So you hugged the globe

Now it's whirling too fast

I've really got no hope

To hang on to the past

The train has departed

The toxins have started

To announce that none will last

I cover in the gutter

Of the world that's not so near

And I listen to their mutters

That are spinning through the air

The words unspoken

The promises broken

And the ones who really care

I'm the watcher of the scene

I see our shadows on the screen

And when the subway brakes

To preserve some suicidal bee

I stopped to breathe for a while

Maybe it was me

This is the world gliding by

Like the driftwood beam

On a lifetime's stream

The instant fundamental sky

For Pandora's lullaby

I see distorted faces

Coined like gold

And in their wrinkles programs

That commercial gurus told

A watermark

Against a spark

Umbrellas that they hold

I'm gliding in the distance

And watch the world go by

An orbit full of questions

A perforated sky

But I just sit

And wonder a bit that they never wonder why

This is the world gliding by

Like the driftwood beams

On lifetime's stream

The instant fundamental sky

For Pandora's lullaby

For Pandora's lullaby

For Pandora's lullaby

Lullaby