Melon Sun

I thought about a trip to an intimate place
Trying to pick within a million escapes
Butterflies winding around me in flows of colors
More that I could see
More than I would seek

I had no watch and that was not a day to buy one
Not a day to make a point, not a day to make a difference
Not a day to shine or fall into your arms
Not a day to argue whatever you believe is worth
Not a day

Kids busy playing around, time running slowly
Melon sun and creamy smoke trails in the sky
I can't tell if I ever tasted this flavor
Or if it comes from someone else's childhood

There was this group of old men looking at the crowd with gentle faces
And I wished the air could carry their thoughts over to me
Their fears, their pride, their lies
I wonder how the world looks through their eyes

I lied down relaxed and confident
Thinking was irrelevant
Soaking in the green, staring at the blue
And the earth washing my last thoughts away

I felt lighter and I realized I had lost contact with the ground
Free from my roots, my body was elevating
Nothing was keeping me down there anymore
Things had never felt that well in order

There were these air balloons ascending at my pace
And thousands of tiny comets rushing up the sky
A calm wind across my hair and clement sunbeams
I had never been in this place before

But before I knew it earth was nothing more than a dot on the horizon
The light weakened, it was warm and peaceful
I had never been in this place before
And I will never be coming back

Butterflies are gone
I didn't see them dispersing
I missed the chance to ride
And now the door is open

We fly over space at 18 miles per second
We run, we jump, we fall and we get back on our feet
We make money we make friends we make love
We search, we discover, we change our mind, we change our plan
We raise kids we raise walls to break them later
Always building, always destroying
Breaking apart, breaking out, burning out
Your flesh, your guts, your brain are rotting out in a little box
You're connected to networks that you never explored
You are alone and so are your billions of brothers
Trying to share, dying to shine

There is no time to achieve your desire
There is no meaning to your heartbeat
There is no place where you belong
There is no hand to hold along

We fly over space at 18 miles per second
We run we fall we jump we run we fall
We sent a probe on a 6 years trip to Saturn
And it kept sending pictures from a million miles away
We found remedies and cure diseases

We see more than our eyes can see
We hear more than we can hear
There are thousands of people traveling across the sky
Suspended in the air, right now

From where I stand earth is no more than a dot on a blackboard
From where I stand earth is no more than a dot
From where I stand earth is no more