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