Room For Error

Are you closer to God
Or are you closer to Canada?
Put your ambition in a box
And forget it in your childhood basement
Next to a stack of dreams
And sad teenage recordings
Down here you’re a star
And the Earth changes above you

Enter the stage
A flight attendant and a poet
A caterpillar reluctant about
The benefits of wings

Terracotta warrior
Defender of the agriculture
In between William and Sarah 
I'll keep it in a room for error

My girlfriend and I
Disagree about temperature
But when I look at her green eyes
I’m under stars in an old sweater 

It’s my last day on the farm
Moving water lines in the August heat
I’m starboard Antarctica
Watching the sunrise over Willoughby 

Bolted romaine
I am too far gone
I am driving to New York
For the woman I love 

Terracotta warrior
Defender of the agriculture
In between William and Sarah 
I'll keep it in a room for error

Run a line
Straight down 
To the other side of the world
Sell it all for a dollar
At the earth's core store
When I'm left
Without a cause because 
They took away the war

Exit stage left 
Tired actor, beloved father
How he’d love your radiance
Sharing stories of your heritage

Terracotta warrior
No longer working for the emperor
In between William and Sarah
I’ll put a room called room for error

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