Part of the Whole - Kevin Devine

Back of your mind

You’re counting it down

You want what you want

You’re not worrying now

Taunt the TVs

Left, right, left

Hear the lights change

And hide in your head

You slide off the side

And curse in your sleep

You kiss your clay lips

And kill the canteen

So now its all done

It’s all leaving or left

The bees will die out

And you’ll wonder who’s next

And so as part of the whole

You try’n let go of

All that you can’t control

Cause you spent all your spin

2004, but nothing much changed,

And nothing felt sure.

Except maybe one thing

One ominous fact

So you checked yourself out

With the crowd that’s rolled back

While you’re waving goodbye

Clouds grouped in white flags

Prospectors line up

Cuffed jeans and messenger bags

Seeing memories sold

Grave plots in the glow

Cafes and condos

Watch’em go watch’em go, oh

Watch’em go, watch’em go

And so as part of the whole

You try’n let go of

All that you can’t control

So most of you stay

You settle in waves

Complacently asleep

Or a quarter awake

Keep down the dertif' in your brain

You can’t take

Truth you can’t face

Truth you can’t fake

You gotta face it, oh

You gotta face it, oh

You gotta face it