Checking In: Bounce Off Me

Bounce Off Me

I’m six miles behind
And I’m loosing the chase
Afraid of dying
It’s up to my waist
I don’t like the paths that I am seeing from this place
I can’t get my head out
Of this misshapen space

The people around me
They really bring me down
They’ve no destination
They just go the rounds
There’s no communication and nothing is renown
They’re always fighting
They never go downtown

(Chorus)
Bounce off me
Let me… bounce off you
I need good vibrations
Cause I’m running on fumes
My hearts a ball of rubber
In an unfurnished room
Please, bounce off me

Let me bounce off you

You caught me in the highway
Between silent clapping clocks
You said, “Come outside, man
You need to climb a tree
You know it’s too nice a day to be sitting in a beige box
You need some sun and fresh air, boy
You really need to breathe”

Share a guilty pleasure
Humming a silly song
Doesn’t that ever bug you?
Though I’s the only one
It’s a strange connection as if by fellow foreigners
Like inside joke
Between total strangers

(Repeat chorus)

I didn’t know how tense I was
Till I started to relax
Didn’t know how low I’d been
Until you made me laugh
Is it an echoed gesture bringing me these whiplash flashbacks?
Or a bliss that burned out
And burnt my will to track?

I miss the ballad army but I don’t miss the anthem war
I miss the search for perception but not the smoky locked green door
I miss the feeling that age and stage has taught me to ignore
I miss the sense of really living… that my life had before

I’m six miles behind
Picking up my pace
And though the tracks are faded
I’m on the trail of grace
Lengthy and open, I wish to offer my embrace
I know she’s out of my league
But I’m starting to believe

(Repeat chorus)