Other Air

No gentle introduction, I'm swept through the gate
Emerging like a newborn - an underground animal
I can't decipher what is written here
Nothing resolves this sudden aphasia

For I am breathing other air
My lungs fill double size
To hold everything from here to there
It cannot be undone
This great expansion

I smile blankly at your leading comments
Can you see through me? Too polite to say
So you keep giving, expecting the same back
I could meet you halfway

For I am breathing other air
My lungs fill double size
To hold everything from here to there
It cannot be undone
This great expansion

I am erratic
Picked up, put down again
Handle me like porcelain
Somebody else's child

I am erratic
Picked up, put down again
Handle me like porcelain
Somebody else's child

For I am breathing other air
My lungs fill double size
To hold everything from here to there
It cannot be undone

Oh, I am breathing other air
My lungs fill double size
To hold everything from here to there
It cannot be undone
This great expansion

(All departing passengers on this flight please board through Gate 98, Gate 98, thank you)