Vertical Lyrics

He always saw things like they were vertical obstacles

Impeding his vision

He felt like he could see past time, since he was a kid, mind you

If he could only see past the vertical things blocking his vision

People stood there, making him shower and do chores

Clean his room go to school, there were always walls

Four walls in every room, 40 rooms in the school, 160 vertical

Walls in the school stopping him

The windows of the car filtered out possibilities,

Those nearly vertical windows

The stupid cars the stupid trees the bricks, rocks, water

The parents worried about him, the more they worried

The more they forced obstacles into his sight, therapy

They knew nothing about him, didn't think in the same box

Everyone was outside of the box, standing tall outside

Blocking his vision

The parents made him go to the fair made him shoot the water

Into the hole, water level rising, crazy music he wins a stuffed

Elephant to stand before him, opaque

And then she is there, the first thing she did was flash him

tshirt up and down in vertical speed friends guffawing

Sound like laughing wall impossible to block

She came to him on the bb game, came up behind him and

Gently on his shoulder, those arms horizontally and the look

On that face, sadly passionate, I'm sorry for that, they

Bring out the bad in me, I'm not a bad girl really

Then she shot perfect holes around the star and won him

Another huge elephant and kissed him quickly on the lips

So quick, so light as to not even feel so much as see the

Vertical face right up to him, blocking his vision

Then a wall grew within him, lifting him up and over

To a new height a clearing of the clouds rushing skyward

And he saw for the first time above the world of impossibility