unreachable distance
There’s a banging in the church bell steeple.
I check my watch but I didn’t put one on.
You’d think me of all the people
Would know that time is almost gone.
I walk faster to lose that sound.
I need a whole body plaster.
I’ve been shoved way too much around,
Shoved way too much around.
I’ve been played for a professor
Been played for a fool.
Been played for a confessor
On a bar room stool staring into a metaphorical bent knee.
Been played for a saint, played for a devil.
I’ve even gone straight on a whole other level
But weren’t nobody there could see me.
You can lie next to someone and be a million miles away in your head.
Or you can be a million miles away but next to them in a conjugal bed.
Oh baby, turn off the light.
I’m plain done with thinking tonight.
I’m gonna tell me a joke and be surprised
When the punch line comes out undisguised.
You can cry faster than the speed of light
And blush faster too.
Einstein didn’t factor in our emotions
In his high-speed equation for me and you.
There’s a million ways you can divide light
Into your daytimes of desires.
There’s even more ways you can lie awake at night
Counting their funeral fires.
You got to reach more than far to connect most times.
It mostly depends where you are.
You can be alone in the barrens of the Jersey pines
Look up and see your star.
That’s when you reach an unreachable distance.
That’s when you connect.
That’s when you fall into the existence
Of an ethos that you can respect,
Of an ethos that you respect.