friendly smiles passing with open eyes
crystal memories delude us all in time
we see just what we want to see
an idealistic view imbues the memory
like now is drowned in river current
an arrow curved around a sphere
we’re here to learn how long it takes to get back here
fear of fear our cultural belief
the time we get to give and take to keep
drip side down for hurried hearts
brown to blonde from end to start
like never ending nested Russian dolls
an arrow curved around a sphere
we’re here to learn how long it takes to get back here
carry us all shouting trending memes
nothing that you know is as it seems
flip perception on it’s head
to find old concepts we can blame shit on instead
like now is drowned in river current
an arrow curved around a sphere
we’re here to learn how long it takes to get back here
riding on the pendulum
it knows that where we’re going is where we just swung from
triple check my napkin math
square the root and follow on the circle’s path
like televising television sets
recursive screens cascading video playback
a chrysalis will bloom into a re-spawned pupal butterfly and so will you
you die like you’re a skipping track
you’re gone before you know you’re back
to come and slip into again
the consciousness you’d forgotten
like dreams you lose when you describe
how waking up feels less alive
than everything you thought was real
by now you’d think we’d know the deal
like time repeating time and time again
an arrow curved around a sphere
we’re here to learn how long it takes to get back here
like now is drowned in river current
an arrow curved around a sphere
we’re here to learn how long it takes to get back here
