Ordinary Air

VERSE 1
I'm feeling lighter than I've ever been,
And I'm not breathing complicated air.
I've said goodbye to friends and my possessions,
But I'm still here and they are also there.

VERSE 2
It's as easy as breathing, and just as hard.
In. Out. But don't think what you're doing.
As easy as life, but living's difficult.
Up. Down. We don't know what we're doing.

CHORUS
And suddenly it all becomes so simple.
I can see for miles and breathe electric air.
It was always there if we had just been looking - just been thinking
The answer at our feet, and in our hair.

And suddenly it all became so urgent:
The tide is rising even as we speak.
It was always there if we'd listened to our feelings,
That inner voice - a movement in the ground and in the air.

BRIDGE
And if we speak, we'll break the spell.
And if we think, the thought will swell
And block the sun, the sky, the air;
The rolling cloud, the melting debt to reason -
The cloud that rolls, unfurls the sun
And opens to the simple air.

VERSE 3
I am feeling younger than I've ever been,
But I'm not breathing ordinary air.
We're older now than we will ever be,
But we're not breathing ordinary air.

VERSE 4
It's as easy as being, but just as hard.
Left. Right. We don't know where we're going.
It's as easy as seeing, but just as dark.
Shut your eyes, smell the lemon I am peeling.

CODA
And the wind stirs in the citrus grove
Whispers in your hair.
The leaves that shake with trembling light….
Rustling mountain air.
And as water tumbles cold in cataracts,
The air is charged with prisms -
This is rippling like shook foil - not ordinary air.





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