Testo Somewhere unoccupied Kevin Devine

Somewhere unoccupied

You got some bad news
You took it face first
Like people often do
No matter how advanced
An enlightened perspective's no
safeguard against
A real life
With its nosedives
Its gutter lows
Its sunrise heights

I heard you say,
"I'm an acrobat
I cheated death
Now death is cheating back
I thought I might hide out
Become the empty sky
But I had to land
I couldn't find
Somewhere unoccupied"

You sang in ghost notes:
A second history
A pool of broken code
I felt the moment slide
You were bridging the halves of a great divide

I heard you say,
"If there's an architect
Let's see the plan
Let's see who gets it next
I'm sure, sometimes,
Except when I'm certain otherwise."
I felt your hand fold into mine,

And I was preoccupied
Felt fleeting & small
Completely surrounded by
The fates of us all
You were the troubled one
But you took me on
You carried me along

I heard you say,
"Go be a welcome mat.
A sign of home;
An uncomplicated fact
Outside yourself,
the whole world is helping someone else.
An act of grace, a clearing mind -
Somewhere unoccupied"