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Outside The Asylum

from Walking Under Ladders by Bill Borman

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And isn't it funny that we're all the same;
That we're all together alone in this place?
And isn't it funny we're all playing this game
On this rock out in space?

And there's fresh old news in the paper today
The world's heating up by degrees, they say
We've got to do more and we've got to do less
To make sure everything stays the same

So how about I do more and you can do less
'Cause failure is never quite as frightning as regret
And the world will spin longer, and we can be stronger
And the aliens we'll have met, they'll say...

CHORUS
I don't think it means as much as you think it does

And don't you feel so goddamn helpless
In a world where only the atheist can be truly selfless
And he isn't, anyway?
You've read the gossip in the magazines
You've thought "I wish that I could be
That naive"

And from the satellite I said
Isn't life more than wine and bread?
Falling in love gMm/r2?
And the patterns are there, if unclear, from up here
When the answers aren't over my head

(break)

When they pick me up from the satellite
Fly me away to the end of the night
Now facing the origin, all of us there
Infinitesimal dot, You Are Here
And I'll say...

CHORUS

And she always complains that he doesn't phone
And it's hard to find time to be with and alone
But now from afar, see how alone we are
Like Wonko the Sane, I'm outside the asylum
Untouched and untouchable - free.
Untouched and untouchable seen.
And all I can say is...

CHORUS

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from Walking Under Ladders, released April 1, 2007

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