Scared of losin' all the time
He wrote it on a letter
He was a friend of mine
He heard you could see your future
Inside a glass of water
With ripples and the lines
He asked 'Will I see heaven in mine
Oh that is just the way it was,
and nothing could be better,
and nothing ever was.
Oh he said you could see your future,
inside a glass of water,
With riddles and the rhymes
'Will I see heaven in mine
Oh, oh, oh
Son don't ask,
Neither how full or empty is your glass,
Cling to the mast
Spend your whole life living in your past
Going nowhere fast
So he wrote it on a wall
that the hollowest of halos is no halo at all
And television selling plastic figurines of leaders
saying nothing at all
And we chime 'Stars in heaven, align!'
Oh, oh, oh
Son don't ask,
Neither how full or empty is your glass,
Cling to the mast
Spend your whole life living in your past
Going nowhere fast
And what I'll be drinking when we're done?
Just glasses of water