early this morning   i read the paper   i sipped my coffee without a sound   as bombs were dropped on countries   whose names i can't pronounce      sometimes life   seems like a cake   slippin' through the layers of illusion that you bake   my mind is trippin' on these verbs and these nouns   i think i'll take a walk downtown      weighing me down   there's something keeping me from going downtown   weighing me down   i'm confused by these scents and these sounds   weighing me down   these thoughts are weights holding me to the ground   weighing me down   i know that i gotta stick around      breathe in the air   the wind in my hair   center of the universe isn't even there   i searched and i looked   through libraries of books   hopin' it'd be together like knights and rooks