When it was silent for a real long time Way up north in some white cave All that nothing turned itself into a spark Sounded just like a radio wave I was listening to the A.M. live Riding to the county fair Hard days before seatbelts in the chairs But when Donny Angel sang, nobody cared I rode on the Gravitron Then the platform man hit the button I looked down, the bottom was gone And all that force upon my eyes Blanketed my troubled mind First time I walked upon the wire Wake up: your mother's gone, you're just a child The ride is done you're on the ground And nobody cares when the next ten years Fall off the table and break with no sound Sometimes I dreamt I saw my future life From a firetower in a field I either saw myself floating away in the sky Or the Donny Angel walking the Earth From the wrong side I almost woke up from the sound Of a lot of geese rustling at the same time I tuned myself into joining their flight 'Till what I saw that night Burned across my troubled mind From where I'd walked upon the wire What'd the Donny Angel say? Shut up You gotta stick out your tongue to all The feelings you don't know what to do with Hang your feet from the bridge While you're still young Pretend you're watching the sun come up From another planet's sun (So far behind) And if your sky catches fire 'cause the tank Crushed the car with the family inside And now you fly from reason like sparks Or the rocks that you kick down the street With your heels while you're waiting for The community van That takes you and your bag Someplace that you've already been Then someday your memories stop And turn into chords, fall down They'll write a song About that time you fell The one you didn't stand back up Then it sounds just like they knew you Stood up every time before You'll know it's comin' when you're Having that same dream Things are moving out real slow Way high above a field so green But you don't know what it means Just stare 'till you hear the birds You won't feel better But you won't feel worse Where was heaven When you were stuck in the night? Lift off from your tallest tower stairs You'll find it's all comin clear But it ain't here yet Donny hail, shake it, fly! Oh! Then come the age they call The opening wide When city riots met the dawn One time I got chased so hard Through the streets My feet lifted and I rose up above And so I asked what you were doin' tonight Let's spend an hour in the dark Try to look in the eyes of the maker Try to hear the sound of the inside out spark And if it's silence chop it up with a knife Until you say you feel the same Let's get a place downtown by the river Where they bang on the pipes And it sounds like the rain How does that sound? The river flooded and the T.V. died I saw the channel changing slow I turned and looked outside I had to say out loud "Is this a window or the city below?" Donny, what happened To the words you'd write? They used to lift me like a storm Blow me from the ceilings Of North Church Hill to the floor Maybe they'll bring me back home sometime Don't just say I'm right Give me nothing for my troubled mind Just say I'm walking the wire Last night on the water where the Lights from the fires get thrown I saw Donny sailing by all alone Humming his song of how we only get home When all our fears are gone Someday your memories stop and turn into Chords, fall down, they'll write a song About that time you fell The one you didn't stand back up Hope it sounds just like they knew you Stood up every time before Baby, lately I've been having that same dream Things start zooming out real slow Then your face gets hard to see Don't tell me I know what it means To stare 'till I hear the birds I don't feel better But I don't feel worse Picked up her her bag and I felt sad Knowing it was time for the door And another melody that they Hadn't found yet probably soon gonna be Just as soon as she pulls her heart Back from under me And I'll have to stick out my tongue to all The feelings I won't know what to do with Hang my feet from the bridge like I'm still young Not like I've watched my son grow up From another planet's sun Followed the river to the dry fairgrounds I climbed the firetower stairs Tried to imagine the stain of a war-torn plain That was a city If the city wasn't there When it was silent for a real long time I took off into the blue In a week they'll broadcast My name across a wire Or maybe if I land just right