Why? - The Dead Of The Day lyrics

On my way here, I saw a kite caught In a power line. I say "caught," but I like to think "perched," for what it's worth Sometimes I'm so close to a phrase like You know 'the blueprint of my soul,' I just want to let the whole goddamned poem go Maybe my old friend said it best "We got struck by lightening And it stuck in our chests." "Why do we say we're bored to tears? What are we mourning?" In the dead of the day I turned ten The Dow went black And brokers fell from the sky Into geometrical piles of pinstripes About a month before I turned 24 Cabs with the backseats knocked out Took bodies to an old Brooks Brothers They'd converted into a new morgue I want to live longer than your average Black Panther I want to watch the gray trickle-paint my beard I want to pen a novel entitled, 'The Held Sigh," I want to quit writing and moved to Arcosanti And even sink i the same light lines I cut In soiled suit, somebody's father dives To catch a quarter rolling on it's side Got a bum memory but got these raps... Nah, yall do songs I'm only snapping my fingers like I forgot something