At This Velocity - Thursday

We were safe, now we’re paralyzed

Suspended in flight

At this speed it makes no difference

We were safe, now we’re paralyzed

Suspended in flight

At this speed it makes no difference

Where I start or where I end

Or if you’re sitting in an emergency aisle

We could be dead, complete the equation

Our names are x and n

We have no value in these calculations

Placed on a plane pointed straight down

Traveling at five hundred feet per second

Five thousand feet from the ground

How long will it take us to hit?

How fast until we start the disintegration?

Don’t die now

Just keep moving

Don’t stop now

Just keep moving

How fast will it take us to hit?

How long until we start the disintegration?

We could be safe, now, forever

Falling in the clean blue air

Somewhere between the sun that gives us light

And the ground that puts it out

And we kneel in the aisles

Press our hands together

And close our eyes, speak these words

So softly to the black hawks

And it goes

«Mother, father can you hear this?

I want to thank you for all your sweetness

I’m not coming home, never coming home again.»