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