[Intro]
[Verse]
What a day we had⦠I figured Iâd be feeling bad, but I donât feel a thing.
They read from Mark and then bring us all up Shingle Camp Hill Road.
Throwing flowers at the ground felt like hours, with the grown-ups whimpering.
In the blown-out green of spring I see the whole small town explode.
[Chorus]
And then driving to our house at night, the stars shoot out their shine behind the Olds windows.
My father quiet behind the wheel, I fully feel that he knows where heâs trying to go.
And then they carry me inside, this other world behind my eyes, this bright-lit neon glow.
And then itâs morning everywhere, and summer air, and thereâs the stereo.
[Interlude]
[Verse]
The Electric Company was playing when my mom left me five minutes on the couch,
and I was blue when she came out, and wasn t breathing.
That Opel flew through town, all down 120, and around the Lebanon green, and out.
I don t know what they were thinking about. I don t want to imagine it.
[Chorus]
In came the doctor, wearing white. Carefully, he cut a circle in my throat
and took a little plastic tube and looped it through my lungs and sealed me closed.
My parents were called into the room, with no idea what to do but frightened to say so.
They showed them how to clean it out, and showed them how to set me down, and sent me home.
[Verse]
1983 - the apparition came to me and spoke to me all night,
frozen inside my bed, bone-white, my brother fast asleep.
And, under surgery, a second time it came and showed me a house in outer space,
another boy who had my face, a mom and dad who weren t the same...
I woke up and my aunt gave me a book.
[Chorus]
Show me the neatest place to hide, to crawl inside the silver gym. Don t tell a single other soul.
Beneath the bleachers is a lighter, and a sneaker, and a frozen sparrow.
I broke into the church at night and pulled out all the stops and heard that organ overload,
and screamed, This giant clashy chord is for Our Lord. Up where he is. Up Where he goes.
[Outro]
Up that music floats,
leaving family, friends and home down so small below.
And it s still there for all I know.
