A Perfect Day

Once I had intelligence
 Once I had the will
 But all the lines a hard life finds
 Will slowly redefine our tale
 And the dreamer deep inside of me
 Was eventually a casualty
 And I think the things I couldn't think
 And I fight the fight I couldn't win
 Inside my head
 And I unwrapped the star this year
 But it wasn't where I had dreamed of being
 And as the paper fell away
 The glitter fell away
 And the kids weren't there but I just don't care
 She wanted plastic, I'd thought so hard for wood this year
 They can open them alone
 I paid for all this stuff
 Ain't that enough
 And I am
 Leaving
 Winter came on oh so hard
 And every muscle aches
 From 40 years of knowing that passion is all it takes
 Much too old to leave a pretty corpse
 I'm too young to just forget
 I'll surprise you all with the poison in my head
 The poison in my head
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 It was the perfect weathered grey
 The perfect winter's day
 As I climbed into the sky
 I scribbled all the words that I couldn't say
 Like you'll be sorry when I'm dead
 Oh so sorry when I'm dead
 Now just once I'm gonna seize the day
 And I am
 I'm falling
 The first one to the scene
 They took everything they could get from me
 And the doctors that came next
 They feared the worst
 That I was uninsured
 The ink from the note had run
 With the blood and snow and slush
 It was a Christmas miracle they said
 That if I wake
 That I should live
 But I'm
 Flying
 I'm flying