From a Balance Beam

There is a man holding a megaphone

He must have been the voice of God

The bystanders claimed they saw Angels

Flying up and down the block

They must have been attached to wires

I'd seen one laying in the lawn

With a broken arm, so I called 911

Well, that's one less founded opinion

One more cause for a dispute

So the street filled, like a basin

Up with cameras and their crews

And they washed away the rumors

Leaving just the concrete truth

It was a spectacle

No, I, I mean a miracle

So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam

A gymnasium of eyes all were holding on to me

I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping

It was a small mistake, sometimes that is all it takes

Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the time is right

When the planets will align, there will be no planets to align

Just the carcass of the sun

And little painted marbles spinning senseless

Through an endless black sky

It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub, I baptized myself in change

And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been

I emerged to find the parallels were fewer, I was cleansed

I looked in the mirror and someone new was there

But, I was as helpless as a chess piece

When I was lifted up by someone's hand

And delivered from the corner, my enemies had got me in

But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside

That holding cell that is myself

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key

As it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me

"Oh my patient prisoner, you waited for this day and finally

You are free, you are free, you are freezing"

Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode

This day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come

And we will finally know the way out of here

And I will throw away this wrinkled map

And my chart of stars and compass, cracked

And I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap

To avoid the hungry beasts below

I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing

Of a graveyard gray and a garden green

And then we won't have to worry no more

No, we won't have to until again

About how this song or story ends

About how this song and story will end