Empty Plane - Dar Williams

I leave for a living

It’s what we all do

And I say that I’m missing the ones that I’m leaving

And I always do

But another truth is that you

Begin again every time you fly

There’s peace in the airport

Sitting at a gate by a door to the sky

So it’s hard, but it’s not hard

Fumble for your ID, credit card

But then I walked on to

But then I walked on to

Then I walked on to

An empty plane

And the girl at the Starbucks

Looked like she knew me

She poured a design on the foam of my coffee

And she was smiling

I said «It's funny how life at its best expanse

Explodes, and it overspills

But we try to fit it all in a grid

And we say it’s the strength of our will»

And she started laughing

She said «Look I made a wing, and another wing»

And then I walked on to

Then I walked on to

Then I walked on to

An empty plane

I was moving fast now, understanding

So much kindness, no frustration

I asked the screener:

«Does my life have a destiny?

Or just a destination?»

I thought I’d step away from my traveling

Have a little time to connect the dots

See my life like a spiral

The DNA of my dreams and thoughts

And I

Believed

In a legacy

But I stood in the jet bridge

And the young man nodded

I looked at the name tag

And said «Hello, Angel»

It was all empty seats now

Nothing in the overhead

I sat near the front and I started sleeping

And I woke in my own bed

And I said «Oh it’s a dream

But a dream that grows like a vision from a single spark»

And I thanked my dream attendants

And I rose and I dressed in the dark

It was an early one today

Yellow cab, JFK