But once I really listened, the noise just fell away
As the ground raced beneath them, thirty-thousand feet down
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball
In 27-D, I was behind the wing
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
The plan of a city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened, the noise just fell away
Watching landscape roll out like credits on a screen
When your circumstance is movie-size
The stewardess came back and checked on my drink
And I was pretending that I was in a galaxie 500 video
And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow
In the last strings of sunlight, a Brigitte bardot
It took an hour, maybe a day
The earth looked like it was lit from within
As I had on my headphones along with those eyes that you get
It took an hour, maybe a day
As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid
But once I really listened, the noise just fell away
