Garp (Terminal Cases) Songtext
von Matt Bennett
Garp (Terminal Cases) Songtext
And in one day I lived a beautiful life
I was a sailor, an inventor, a writer, a wrestler
A mad scientist, I was homeless, I was president
I was an alien, a genie, and a bat
A radio DJ, a Russian, and a poet
A doctor, a widower, a brother
A penguin, two kinds of robots
I even lived to tell the tale
It was like a movie I′d seen
My jaw was wired shut and I wasn't breathing
I was lifted off the gymnasium floor
I wasn′t afraid to fly anymore
It was like a book I read
The expectations placed on an empty nest
The family who knew moving on was best
I was restless, I was grounded, my nights were endless
This house is full of broken hearts
And among them mine is one
When we started to unknow each other
New York didn't seem as fun
They say that love keeps us together
But strangers can break us apart
No stranger more strange
Than the strangers we've become
If you′re feeling like a footnote
A hit and rerun
Welcome to the club
The air got knocked out of my body
And ascended to a higher plane
And I was learning
In a flood of youth and agony
Of fear and longing
Everything seemed out of reach
Before I met you, I was an island
Now I am a beach
I like thinking about how we met
But the where and most of all why
Because we made an intersection
In a world of parallel lines
I remember it all
Unfiltered, uncorrected
Story credit goes to you
The arc of a life disconnected
I′m just glad I noticed it
It was a pleasure
Rocketing off on a fun-filled adventure
You knew her too, man
How can you act so unphased
I don't deal well with loss
It doesn′t happen to me every day
But I don't fear what I don′t know
That's what makes life worth living
I′m not worried about tomorrow
An uncertain future's the best kind
I can mold it and shape it and make it mine
That's the writer in all of us
The imitator of human behavior
The tastemaker writing with flavor
In the world according to Garp
We are all terminal cases
And in a world without you, Jack
I′m alone and I′m impatient
If I came off cruel I'm sorry
Sometimes I just get so caught up
In facts and figurations
Blood and math equations
Humility and dignity and insecurity and stuff
All my life I′ve been looking for salvation
While watching television
My eyes and ears tuned into the static
And waves of oscillation
That resembled running water
Over countless burned down bridges
Point out one you burned down
Between you and your old hometown
The damage is irreparable
But we can build a better tomorrow
Pick up stones and pave a path
On the fossils of your apostles
I see the light at the end of the tunnel
How can we be so foolish, Jack
To have the world and eat it too?
As long as I have a life to live before I die
I think I'll be fine
And living′s what we'll do
When I put down the book the author is dead
Into a brighter blue world
We step in
I was a sailor, an inventor, a writer, a wrestler
A mad scientist, I was homeless, I was president
I was an alien, a genie, and a bat
A radio DJ, a Russian, and a poet
A doctor, a widower, a brother
A penguin, two kinds of robots
I even lived to tell the tale
It was like a movie I′d seen
My jaw was wired shut and I wasn't breathing
I was lifted off the gymnasium floor
I wasn′t afraid to fly anymore
It was like a book I read
The expectations placed on an empty nest
The family who knew moving on was best
I was restless, I was grounded, my nights were endless
This house is full of broken hearts
And among them mine is one
When we started to unknow each other
New York didn't seem as fun
They say that love keeps us together
But strangers can break us apart
No stranger more strange
Than the strangers we've become
If you′re feeling like a footnote
A hit and rerun
Welcome to the club
The air got knocked out of my body
And ascended to a higher plane
And I was learning
In a flood of youth and agony
Of fear and longing
Everything seemed out of reach
Before I met you, I was an island
Now I am a beach
I like thinking about how we met
But the where and most of all why
Because we made an intersection
In a world of parallel lines
I remember it all
Unfiltered, uncorrected
Story credit goes to you
The arc of a life disconnected
I′m just glad I noticed it
It was a pleasure
Rocketing off on a fun-filled adventure
You knew her too, man
How can you act so unphased
I don't deal well with loss
It doesn′t happen to me every day
But I don't fear what I don′t know
That's what makes life worth living
I′m not worried about tomorrow
An uncertain future's the best kind
I can mold it and shape it and make it mine
That's the writer in all of us
The imitator of human behavior
The tastemaker writing with flavor
In the world according to Garp
We are all terminal cases
And in a world without you, Jack
I′m alone and I′m impatient
If I came off cruel I'm sorry
Sometimes I just get so caught up
In facts and figurations
Blood and math equations
Humility and dignity and insecurity and stuff
All my life I′ve been looking for salvation
While watching television
My eyes and ears tuned into the static
And waves of oscillation
That resembled running water
Over countless burned down bridges
Point out one you burned down
Between you and your old hometown
The damage is irreparable
But we can build a better tomorrow
Pick up stones and pave a path
On the fossils of your apostles
I see the light at the end of the tunnel
How can we be so foolish, Jack
To have the world and eat it too?
As long as I have a life to live before I die
I think I'll be fine
And living′s what we'll do
When I put down the book the author is dead
Into a brighter blue world
We step in
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