i heard a bone snap
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when i was only about nine
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the laws of gravitation
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were in abeyance a while
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but not long
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before they taught me a lesson
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in tough skin jeans like a japanese hessian
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i was 70 pounds, learning to fly
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i knew i couldn't do it if i didn't try
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we called it the "field" where we used to hang out
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a field of alfalfa behind the back of our house
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with a slice of an old oak tree
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and a 12 ft. plank
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put the board on top
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we got flying machine
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oh my god we could teeter on this
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or make lever that could shoot me into orbital space
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i'd seen the circus
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and i saw how they do it
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with bent knees
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you got to jump like you would from a trampoline.
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we got out the ladder
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and the heaviest kid
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he would climb up top
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and count down like
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a rocket ship
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to fire me up
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he'd get to t-minus zero
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before he'd jump
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and i was shot high in a vertical catapult
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straight up and down
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i remember the view from overtop of the house
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-gravity seems weak until you look down
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i got in position
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i had impeccable form
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if the judges were present
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they'd be holding up score cards
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with 9's and 10's
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unless i lose a couple points
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for the landing i did
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i heard a loud snap but it didn't hurt
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i looked at the neighborhood
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it looked like earth
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but everybody's acting weird are they out of meds?
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eating a peanut butter sandwich in a hospital bed
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i started noticing
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strange phenomenon
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is this planet the same one that i been on?
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everybody's bizarre and irrational
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even nurses on the clock seem a bit off
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strange phenomenon
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everybody's deranged and i wonder what
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happened the day that i fell from the sky
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if nobody changed
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then it must've been my
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mind.
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Fulcrum And Lever
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| The Faint |
