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 tured 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.