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those kings playing chess on their fuzzy green stools
something mnemonic left over from the old school
and the places we grew up
all travel back on mysteriously powerful wings
taxonomy or poetry, the order of some words
that you learned once in class
and your past life comes back
on the wings of a song

oh oh oh oh oh oh oooh
oh oh oh oooh

once I saw a picture of a human brain and it looked like
it looked like a map to me, dear
it looked like tilled fields from the air
and those shapes got me thinking,
maybe the mind has these migratory patterns
pathways planted so deeply they've led me out here

and mom would let us stay home sick
from school once in a while
'cause every little brain just needs
a chance to laugh and smile and dream some days
she'd say

following my instincts
has made my wings beat so long
that I'm tired for a song
just beating my wings
sometimes I think
that these migratory patterns
as innate as they may be
are the strangest part of me

strategies and harmonies
and airborne daydreams fly
and it's okay to feel a little homesick
sometimes

flying solo above the weather
my attitude indicator is parallel with the fields
my altimeter and my airspeed wheels,
it's just my instruments and me
as my loan body flapped,
looking down from strange heights
with all these kingdoms beneath me
I didn't just find a species,
I found a name

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from the world is not flat, released June 20, 2008

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