Passenger

Walking 'round Chicago I have smuggled you as cargo Though you are far away, unknowing By the time we get to Salt Lake I have packed you in my suitcase Ironed the creases from my own remembering She said, "Bird, oh why?" We wound our way to Texas And I summoned remote hexes And I sent them across dust and oceans In Phoenix, Arizona, I had the notion I might phone you But there it lived and died a notion She said, "Bird, oh why?" And I said, "Bird, oh why?" Oh, my satellite Oh, my passenger We came up on Ohio I have you chewed on like a biro You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering We came to Minneapolis All fizzy blood and twitchy fists I buried you in a day of snowing She said, "Bird, oh why?" And I said, "Bird, oh why?" Oh, my satellite Oh, my passenger Oh, my satellite Oh, my passenger