We Are Real

Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left
And I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct
Is the problem that we can’t see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
The birds of Virginia are flying within you
And like background singers, they all come in threes
Won’t soul music change
Now that our souls have turned strange
Once a day, twice a day…
And when on and off collide
We’ll set our souls aside and walk away
We’ve been raised on replicas of fake and winding roads
And day after day up on this beautiful stage
We’ve been playing tambourine for minimum wage
But we are real, I know we are real
Repair is the dream of the broken thing
Like a message broadcast on an overpass
All my favorite singers couldn’t sing
My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
And they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me
Won’t soul music change
Now that our souls have turned strange
Once a day, twice a day…
And when on and off collide
We’ll set our souls aside and walk away
Realizing is how it feels inside when it happens to you
So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood
And children wander off into the ultra-economic
But we are real I know we are real