The calm before the storm
The last moments of freefall
Before your body hits the soil
Your life don't flash before your eyes
But a dozen windows go flying by
A thousand windows, a thousand glimpses
Into a thousand miserable lives.
Husband and wife fight as the children cry
Broke broken loners seek the next gig to survive
A chronic patient sells all she has to stay alive
At the sight of a thousand faces, your mind changes
At the thought of these lost battles that you could help keep fighting
But that ship has sailed, and we have failed
As the ground rushes to our heads, we scream and flail