Parallel

(Our lives are parallel)
Separate terms of equality
Screaming out for understanding
Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide
Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in
They so divide
Staggering like birds against a hurricane
Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel
Is there nothing we can do for ourselves or only what we should?
(Our lives are parallel)
Independent trajectories
Splintered dreams of unity

(Our lives are parallel)
(Our lives are parallel)
Gesturing without hope of redress

(Our lives are parallel)
Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide
Accepting that it's all such a mess
(Our lives are parallel)

Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel
And trying all the while to stay out of each other's way
(Our lives are parallel)
(Our lives are parallel)
And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins, it will begin
(Our lives are parallel)
(Our lives are parallel)
Is there no redemption, no common good?

So far from reality
Phony collective progress

Independent trajectories
Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel
Side by side suffering loneliness

Forging little plays of deception and pain
As we watch our foundation crumble away
Turning inward and suffering
Broken dreams of unity
(Our lives are parallel)
Our lives are parallel, our lives are parallel
Parallel, parallel, parallel, parallel, parallel,
(Our lives are parallel)