We Are Real - WHY?

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