I'm a Cloud Now

go on get your red shoes on let's get out of town maybe there's a place for the two of us somewhere in the clouds fly me to the moon on a spaceship take me to the liquor store hear you saying you wanna go faster well maybe just a little more keep burning, burning that oil keep turning that water to steam keep winding, tearing through the limestone further, further downstream we were winding some blue country road in the south appalachia you were smiling in the passenger seat rolling a cigarette on the dash you said you'd be taking a new name and asked me what i thought about Will "see ever since i can remember i've been waiting for god's eyes to close and there's something about being in motion that's like being nowhere that's like getting spread out and scattered like old seeds" you said we kept thinking that clouds were mountains the mountains were clouds then i went down on you out in the apple orchard and the rain came heartbreakers are playing on the stereo cat shadow is dancing on the moon keep driving till the dawn for the hell of it still it comes too soon hear "the waiting is the hardest part" but that ain't true for me could be the lonesome could be the darkness or maybe it's the silence oh yeah that's the hardest part silence is the hardest part it's the silence it's the silence so i sat quiet just staring at a white wall tried not to think at all had a vision that showed me a story of how it ever got this far i could hear the sound of your crying i was chewing on the fruit from the vine is this really how it all got started a garden in another life? i remembered how the city lights reflect off the east river and how the train sank underground and how it never made sense no matter how many times i saw all those people running around well, maybe this trip ends at the end of my curiosity my eyes closed and your voice covered me i dreamt of heat lightning, cold rain, minnows and saw dust cloudy water on broken glass i woke up with a snake at my feet looking for new skin i went down to the church of the pentecost to see if they could understand and they told me about christ and the cross and the blood of the lamb i been out in the den with the lion i been down in the belly of the whale ever since i left that garden i been fighting like hell anoint me with the holy oil put your hands on my head hold me down underwater till there's nothing but a river left i thought i had It, the It that rains thought i could make sense of it again but everytime i keep turning up empty slipping through the palm of my hands then i felt a love strong enough to let it go i felt a love strong enough to let it go i'm a cloud now drifting away i'm a cloud now with a million faces i'm a cloud now drifting on by i'm a cloud now fading into sky