Garp (Terminal Cases)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] And in my day, I lived a beautiful life I was a sailor, an inventor, a writer, a wrestler A mad scientist, I was homeless, I was president I was an alien, a genie and a bat A radio DJ, a Russian and a poet A doctor, a widower, a brother A penguin, two kinds of robots I even lived to tell the tale It was like a movie I had seen My jaw was wired shut and I wasn't breathing I was lifted off the gymnasium floor I wasn't afraid to fly anymore It was like a book I read The expectations placed on an empty nest And the family who knew moving on was best I was restless I was grounded, my nights were endless [Verse 2] This house is full of broken hearts And among them, mine is one When we started to unknow each other New York didn't seem as fun They say that love keeps us together But strangers can break us apart No stranger more strange than the strangers we've become If you're feeling like a footnote A hit and rerun Welcome to the club [Verse 3] The air got knocked out of my body And descended to a higher plain And I was learning The flood of youth and agony of fear and longing Everything seemed out of reach Before I met you I was an island, now I am a beach [Verse 4] I like thinking about how we met About the where and most of all why Because we made an intersection In a world of parallel lines I remember it all Unfiltered and uncorrected The story credit goes to you The arch of a life disconnected I'm just glad I noticed it It was a pleasure Rocketing off on a fun-filled adventure [Verse 5] You knew her too, man How can you act so unfazed? I don't deal well with loss It doesn't happen to me every day But I don't fear what I don't know That's what makes life worth living I'm not worried about tomorrow An uncertain future's the best kind I can mold it and shape it and make it mine That's the writer in all of us The imitator of human behavior The taste to make a writing with flavor [Verse 6] In a world according to Garp We're all terminal cases And in a world without you, Jack I'm alone and I'm impatient If I came off cruel, I'm sorry Sometimes I just get so caught up In the facts and figurations Blood and math equations Humility and dignity and insecurity and stuff All my life, I've been looking for salvation while watching television My eyes and ears tuned into static and waves of oscillation They resembled running water of the countless burned down bridges And point out one that burned down between you and your old hometown And the damage is irreparable, we can build a better tomorrow Pick up stones and pave the path on the fossils of your apostles See the light at the end of the tunnel [Outro] How could we be so foolish, Jack? To have the world and eat it too As long as I have a life to live before I die, I think I'll be fine Yeah, living's what we'll do When I put down the book, the author is dead Into a brighter blue world We step in