Paper Boat

These thoughts keep playing like a slideshow on repeat

Like a dramedy I do not want to see

And I tried to put them in a paper boat

Tried to watch them float on down the river

On down the river

Away from me

To set them free

So tonight

I can go to sleep

And there’s one, she keeps on coming back

She says hello so often I wonder what

She’s really after

I’ve been talking lately to a lady in a room

with windows up so high, a candle burns

and I can see the sky

I’ve been talking to a lady

She’s got magic up her sleeve

She asks me to pretend to be

Those thoughts I don’t want to see

I play a bully, I play a saint

I play a child on the stage

I’m trying so frantically

To rest my mind to go to sleep

And I tried to put them in a paper boat

Tried to watch them float on down the river