Superpowers

Superpowers - The Dismemberment Plan

I have seen the world's most beautiful women

Undress in ordinary solitude

I have fallen asleep in the shift of distant satin

I have watched the rich risk it

All for 15 minutes in a Heathrow bathroom

I have shuddered as an unseen mouth

Slid down my spine every night

I have seized with the ice cold rage of a lover betrayed

Half a million miles away

I have cried so hard for hours and not known why

I never do

I've been knocked down flat by joy

That makes my face pulse like a sugar high

I've been cornered by the screams of a body as

It freed itself of its mind

I guess you could call it superpowers

But no one is going to save the world with what I've got

An indigo light from silvery towers

Surrounded by rocks and stones as far as the eye can see

I've been lost in a cold white space

As an arrogant dream storms in from another life

I have felt the snaps of lines that bind us all to this world

I have felt such unreal pain and not known what to do

It isn't mine

I have stayed awake for weeks and slept for days

Not one dream

I guess you could call it superpowers

But no one is going to save the world with what I've got

An indigo light from silvery towers

Surrounded by rocks and stones as far as the eye can see

Under low grey skies

And a razored wind that tears at the walls