Every Passing Minute

Do I get up for work

or is Nightline on?

Hear the shower running

Do I have a roommate?

I look in the fridge

but the light’s gone out

I would go back to sleep

But I’m already there.

Every passing minute

is another chance

The bodysnatchers came

Took their Ipod back.

See me on youtube

I’m wired and I’m fried.

I Tivo’ed Lost,

And I found that number,

to the hotline where they

talk you out of

pulling the plug.

Every passing minute

is another chance

Once I knew a woman

Once I flew on the wind

Every passing minute

is another chance

Once there was an ocean

and her eyes were blue

Another chance

to turn it around.

Like a black spiral staircase

keeps a’leading me down

I can’t see the bottom

But I hear it’s Hell

The stairs are slick

there’s no rail to grab

How can I catch myself

when I already fell?

Every passing minute

is another chance

Every passing minute

is another chance

Every passing minute

is another chance

To turn

To turn it

To turn it around.