Pandora's Lullaby

So you hugged the globe Now it's whirling too fast I've really got no hope To hang on to the past The train has departed The toxins have started To announce that none will last I cover in the gutter Of the world that's not so near And I listen to their mutters That are spinning through the air The words unspoken The promises broken And the ones who really care I'm the watcher of the scene I see our shadows on the screen And when the subway brakes To preserve some suicidal bee I stopped to breathe for a while Maybe it was me This is the world gliding by Like the driftwood beam On a lifetime's stream The instant fundamental sky For Pandora's lullaby I see distorted faces Coined like gold And in their wrinkles programs That commercial gurus told A watermark Against a spark Umbrellas that they hold I'm gliding in the distance And watch the world go by An orbit full of questions A perforated sky But I just sit And wonder a bit that they never wonder why This is the world gliding by Like the driftwood beams On lifetime's stream The instant fundamental sky For Pandora's lullaby For Pandora's lullaby For Pandora's lullaby Lullaby