Cloud Song

sickwillie

By the time this cigarette's spent
I'll be five minutes older
Five more minutes since the last time we talked
Another story I've haven't told you

Be it the one about the son who drifted away
Or the one about the mother whose sad, slow decay
Had him under his bed for a year
Which would you rather hear?

I should wake up and see this is ending
Like a naive child, I keep on pretending
That nothing has changed
How else to explain?
You're a cloud
And I'm caught in the rain.

So if I don't stop by this weekend
It's not that I don't want to be there
I just can't stand to see you so fearless
Yet helpless, and it leaves me scared
To see a lifetime come down to any given day
While you laugh it all off like it's A-OK
And you tell me there's nothing to fear
As though it's something that I need to hear

Why don't you fess up and tell me it's ending?
You're not buying more time by pretending
That nothing has changed
How else to explain?
You're a cloud
And I'm asleep on the plane.