Taking a Page

I can see it in the way That you are the painted Flowers in the big parade Flowers in the big parade Deep inside your heart Staring at the sky Calling out the shapes Clouds make as they pass by And first they thank you by pulling out your tongue And you apologize for being where you're from But I could hear the animals painted on the cave And I was taking a page From my own mistakes It was an empty book Until I took a look I was taking a page From all the time I spend With a vanity That knows no end The many unknown thrills Hard to translate Time yer all the time Elegant heart rate She would look at her Non-linear As she reaches in her pocket to find All of human-kind I'm in my Free Tibet shirt that's made in China With evolution's last jumping off point behind you But I've got an infinity of things left to refuse And I was taking a page from Carole King You're so far away Doesn't anybody stay? I was taking a page from remembering There's so many things Right there under my skin Wandering through a world Neither of us understands And when you think you just can't stand it Zoom out and see the planet 'Cause love is a little like Crowd surfing in an empty club Oh, that's a little bit like Something a lot like love But things could really be much worse At least there's smiley face But I can't take no more Guitar-solo or car chase Words tend to mean the most in songs that are just music Do you ever think that colors say "Hey, who's your favorite human?" But I was stranded in the place of my favorite details And I was taking a page From my imaginary life Where I'm a good housewife Yeah, that sounds nice I was taking a page From never feeling like I was a girl or a guy But I had to try