The Car in the Sky

So... we built our dreams on fire and steel,

Chasing stars with a steering wheel.

You said, "We're free - we're pioneers,"

But the sky looks tired after all these years.

Now there's a car in the sky,

Drifting where angels used to fly.

Chrome and dust around the blue,

Tell me, what did we hope to prove?

We send our ghosts to shine,

While the Earth forgets its line...

And I wish we still cared who we are.

I saw the moon in the rearview glass,

Reflecting all that we let pass.

A billion hearts, a billion screens,

All alone in electric dreams.

And the silence hums like satellites,

Lost prayers spinning out of sight.

We traded love for laser scars -

And called it progress among the stars.

Now there's a car in the sky,

Falling slow, it waves goodbye.

Metal rain begins to fall,

And the void still answers none at all...

We send our dreams too far,

And forget the world they came from -

Wish we were here.