Melon Sun

I thought about a trip to an intimate place Trying to pick within a million escapes Butterflies winding around me in flows of colors More that I could see More than I would seek I had no watch and that was not a day to buy one Not a day to make a point, not a day to make a difference Not a day to shine or fall into your arms Not a day to argue whatever you believe is worth Not a day Kids busy playing around, time running slowly Melon sun and creamy smoke trails in the sky I can't tell if I ever tasted this flavor Or if it comes from someone else's childhood There was this group of old men looking at the crowd with gentle faces And I wished the air could carry their thoughts over to me Their fears, their pride, their lies I wonder how the world looks through their eyes I lied down relaxed and confident Thinking was irrelevant Soaking in the green, staring at the blue And the earth washing my last thoughts away I felt lighter and I realized I had lost contact with the ground Free from my roots, my body was elevating Nothing was keeping me down there anymore Things had never felt that well in order There were these air balloons ascending at my pace And thousands of tiny comets rushing up the sky A calm wind across my hair and clement sunbeams I had never been in this place before But before I knew it earth was nothing more than a dot on the horizon The light weakened, it was warm and peaceful I had never been in this place before And I will never be coming back Butterflies are gone I didn't see them dispersing I missed the chance to ride And now the door is open We fly over space at 18 miles per second We run, we jump, we fall and we get back on our feet We make money we make friends we make love We search, we discover, we change our mind, we change our plan We raise kids we raise walls to break them later Always building, always destroying Breaking apart, breaking out, burning out Your flesh, your guts, your brain are rotting out in a little box You're connected to networks that you never explored You are alone and so are your billions of brothers Trying to share, dying to shine There is no time to achieve your desire There is no meaning to your heartbeat There is no place where you belong There is no hand to hold along We fly over space at 18 miles per second We run we fall we jump we run we fall We sent a probe on a 6 years trip to Saturn And it kept sending pictures from a million miles away We found remedies and cure diseases We see more than our eyes can see We hear more than we can hear There are thousands of people traveling across the sky Suspended in the air, right now From where I stand earth is no more than a dot on a blackboard From where I stand earth is no more than a dot From where I stand earth is no more