Out of Sight Lyrics

My mom told me to have patience

Good things come to those who wait

I see every juncture coming

While it's here and much too late

Tell a twelve year old

To keep his sights on stratospheres

No moons or stars are in his future

You'll confirm his biggest fears

He'll end up like his parents

Tending meager flames

To keep their dreams alive

Call for the iron lung

His teacher's replaced air with pesticide

My mom told me to have patience

Good things come to those who wait

I see every juncture coming

While it's here and much too late

When I was sixteen I was a fish

I fell hook, line, and sinker

They had me on tightropes

Juggling pins and peddling their illusions

But I made it through

I kept my promise

And they kept the rug they pulled

Go off to college

And we promise

This time that you'll see it through

We'll tell you all of these things

And while you're busy

Pull you from yourself

Roadblocks stand before you

Dominoes that fall and reveal truth

My mom told me to have patience

Good things come to those who wait

I see every juncture coming

While it's here and much too late

Tell me now that after all these years

I finally have a choice

Tear the cords out from my throat

And tell me that I have a voice

Tell me now that I can fly

With debt in sandbags at my feet

I thought rules could set me free

But laws keep change just out of sight

Just out of sight

Just out of sight