Julia Massey: Music

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set off to get some groceries
but then i got distracted
by all the people walking round
as if something was happening
i caught on and went to the park
to look at all the trees
but others were already there
doing the very same thing
i tried to smile at everyone
to show them i saw, too
but they all looked away from me
and at that point i knew

that surfing on an astral plane
above the city streets
is my new favorite hobby
cause i get the chance to meet
a lot of other people
who have already been there
laughing at the crowds below
in all of their despair
the beauty of the cloudless sky
and chills from autumn wind
is that it's all the fantasy
from which we all begin

i stepped onto the platform
and i had to catch my breath
because the earth's velocity
had scared me half to death
the rat beneath the tracks was fine
continued on her way
but made sure that she looked at me
as if to say "good day"
i felt the wind come through the tunnel
brush me on the face
and reminisced in my own head
about the human race

so when there's poison
in your heart
we hope you realize
that all the skin you're living in
will only paralyze
the fate of everybody else
who's in their own skin, too
it focuses on earthly things
like oil-based revenues
the beauty of a person's soul
will never be denied
and neither will those faces
that for many years have tried

set off to get some groceries
but then i got distracted
by all the people walking round
as if something was happening