Astronomy - Mark Kozelek, Ben Boye, Jim White

I laid my head in your lap and we flew, and we flew

When we got to your mother’s house, we took the kids room

Painted pink and white and robin’s egg blue

The kids spend a few nights at their dad’s and one night they share their

mother’s room

We slept a lot of the day on Friday

We slept a lot of the day on Saturday

We slept a lot of the day on Sunday too

'Cause, after all, it’s been a busy year for me, and with the kids,

you’re always busy too

We spent some tim looking out the small window of the room

Into the backyard at th lovely winter view

The dead trees coated with soft white snow, and the neighbor’s yard

With a permanently parked turquoise blue fishing boat

One day we gathered in the living room to play scrabble

I asked your daughter, what was it that she wanted to be when she gets older?

She said, «There are so many things, so many many things.»

Right now she loves everything to do with astronomy

I said, «When I was your age, I knew exactly what I wanted to be.»

And she said, «Well, what is that?»

And I said, «A songbird, flying from tree to tree to tree to tree to tree.»