Pavement Made From Cement Made From Pavement

My life’s been so side to side,
I’m reminded each time I look toward the sky
I had never seen lightning go sideways before
And never heard thunder sound off, as both a gunshot and a firework
Not making up its mind, not making up mine
Whether I should run or stay outside

It’s weird the telephone wires hang around with no sides
No wonder birds sit on them, not thinking much at all
And the bicycle tires I ride, how they have no angles
No wonder I never ask how they’ve been
They’re not complex enough you see,
Until they’ve popped again

Spent a couple hours riding on them with my bike just now
Riding around the same damn place
Seeing these things slice up the sky
Heading nowhere but straight
Goin on forever like the tide,
To someplace you’d never seen
Maybe no place at all,
At least they aren’t goin’ in circles
I’m always going back to where I’ve been
Same damn spot

The bugs were throwing rocks again
And I was getting hit in the face
People with judging faces
Using mailboxes as kickstands
Or maybe it just was that one man
But it sure felt like a whole lot more
Sure did

So many dead ends in my neighborhood
So many more if you count streets that have never been drawn
I’m paying the price for not taking them
Not knowing where they’d go, worried about not being able to take them all
But I should’ve gone anyway
I’ve passed so many exits and saw them as just that
Just another place on the map
But what’s worse is running out of pace to find out

Like that car ride, back when I was excited
All those sunflowers standing in rows
Waving like they had a spirit
Must’ve been listening to some nice song
I’d seen em all tall for less than a moment, blurred across the window
Still miss them like hell tho
The worst part about it is,
I never found out the name of the band playin
And now so many car rides, trying to assuage
That my wheels are put on sideways

Talked to a friend today
That I haven’t seen in a long time, over the phone
An angel with a cable halo
Talking about her do’s in the past year
I was pretty silent, don’t talk often about the don’ts
Bullshitted about some things
That I feel like she didn’t even fully understand
But maybe that’s just me
Fabricating things

She said she was excited
For the next year of my life
Lots of good was to come she said
So much so that she started to make even me believe
Maybe she was fucking right
And these good feelings
They’ll be my saving grace
As soon as I see them walk this way
Because I don’t feel like leaving bed today
Just to lazy
Just wanna stay curled up,
Kinda sideways

My life’s been so side to side