Parallel

Sleeping on a time-bomb, staring in to space

There's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face

Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in

And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins

It will begin

Splintered dreams of unity

Our lives are parallel

So far from reality

Our lives are parallel

Independent trajectories

Our lives are parallel

Separate terms of equality

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Is there no redemption? No common good?

Is there nothing we can do for ourselves? Only what we should?

Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide

Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide

They so divide

Side by side suffering loneliness

Our lives are parallel

Phony collective progress

Our lives are parallel

Accepting that it's all such a mess

Our lives are parallel

Gesturing without hope of redress

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Forging little plays of deception and pain

As we watch our foundations crumble away

Staggering like birds against a hurricane

And trying all the while to stay out of each other's way

Broken dreams of unity

Our lives are parallel

Independent trajectories

Our lives are parallel

Screaming out for understanding

Our lives are parallel

Turning inward and suffering

Our lives are parallel

Parallel

Parallel

Parallel

Parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel

Our lives are parallel