The Blue Aeroplanes - Cancer Song lyrics

The horizon disappears Under a reflected sun The light keeps shining Until everything's gone This is an accident A cancer song I'm not scared of dying I'm scared of living too long And I read all your stars As if they meant something to me I looked for the clues To our destiny Things seem so good Then suddenly turn wrong I'm not scared of dying I'm scared of living too long As I was a-flying to a far distant shore I called at an ale-house to spend half an hour And as I sat smoking, beside me a gla** I looked up and saw an unobtainable la** And I wrote down this poem to send you at last Waaa-waaa-waaa, the baby wakes The present exists to be deployed Like Prospero used Caliban The past, the past is dead and gone Just like this song The past exists to be destroyed Like the statues destroyed by the Taliban The past is a different country The writers where right all along And this is an accident A cancer song I'm not scared of dying I'm scared of living too long And as I was a-flying to a far distant shore The airport-lounge called me to spend half an hour But as I sat smoking, beside me a gla** I looked up and saw an obtainable la** And I wrote down this poem to send you at last I had a great time Did lots of stuff I don't mind dying It's living too long That scares me The darkling night produces the morn And even the songbird dreams of his song