Simon Joyner - 747 Lyrics

I went to the market because it's near the airportTo watch the planes rise and fall through holes in the atmosphereThe concrete below me was cracked, parched and concavedAnd I imagined one had crashed right there in my placeI stared deep down into a penzoil rainbowScorched on the sidewalk beneath the torch-yellow sunI stared into the colors lying face down in the gravelAnd I fought all of my urges to spill my own bloodI stared down, deep downA reasonable man left his briefcase on a park benchWhen he stepped into a taxi under alcoholic influenceAnd an unfaithful man washed off an invisible stenchBy taking a swim in the public fountainBut I was watching an airplane fishtail in the skyLeaving a snow-white trail urging me to follow it highAnd I wanted to fly then but I was fastened to the groundSo I grabbed that foresaken briefcaseAnd I threw it in the filthy fountainAnd it went down, deep down