The Boy Who Stood Above the Earth

Hey Stood Above The Earth He returns to the same place Everyday after school To let his thoughts invade him He lets his thoughts invade him He returns to the same place To think about it all Dark blanket pulled over his eyes Waiting for it to turn white He's always in this same place Firsts clenched around the bars Arms stretched and body held high Above the thousand cars He feels a hand on his back That pushes him away Into the emptiness Into the nothingness He feels a second hand That grabs onto his arm Pulls him back of the edge The blanket rises from his face I can't help but wonder What would have happened If we didn't turn up that evening? He had been returning to that same spot At that same time for so many years now We all knew his intentions He was finally ready to let himself go I mean I saw it with my own eyes I saw the earth begin to crumble beneath his shoes And how blind he was And how this meant nothing to him He was empty He had been squeezed and drained of his ghost That just hovered over his head like a thick dark cloud I pulled him back of the edge I took him aside And I said Get a hold of yourself, what do you think you're doing? Get a hold of yourself, did you really think this through? Get a hold of yourself, boy Get a hold of yourself But the acidity of life kept driving into his brain Rendering him careless and his days so mundane Cause we live then we die and we try to leave a trace But we're each another soul among a damaged human race I could not have let him go, I pulled him back with all my strength I could not have let him go, I pulled him back, I pulled him back And I'm overwhelmed with guilt, I sometimes will agree But what's more meaningful than human empathy? The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above the earth The boy who stood above The boy The boy The boy The boy The boy The boy The boy The boy