Between Planes
Brought home in a crazy snowstorm
Then quickly shipped so far away
My brothers wanted to return me
Who knows, maybe they still do.
My family is a handful of people I know
Better than the back of my hands
We were crossing time zones
Long before I learned to cross my T’s
Making homes in foreign lands.
Close your eyes
It’s time to board the plane
Time to leave this place
Time to change your name
And don’t look back now,
‘Cause everything is gone
What you’ve left behind,
It’s time to move on.
Every day I see the homeless,
Asking, begging for change
But we, the homeless, need not ask—
Change just came
No time to fear or question,
And no time to complain
“Here we go” and there we went,
Always the same…
Close your eyes
It’s time to board the plane
Time to leave this place
Time to change your name.
And don’t look back now,
‘Cause everything is gone
What you’ve left behind,
It’s time to move on.
Now Sir Nostalgia and his wife, Ms. Melancholy
Hold hands tightly as they walk me down the aisle.
And as time passes, I can feel them—
It only took ten years.
And now there’s nothing left to do,
So I just…
Close my eyes
It’s time to board the plane
Time to leave this place
Time to change my name.
And don’t look back now,
‘Cause everything is gone
What you’ve left behind,
It’s time to move on.
I close my eyes,
It’s time to board the plane
Time to leave this place,
Time to change my name.
I can’t go back now
‘Cause everything is gone
All I’ve left behind,
It’s time to move on.