Sleep Patterns (Remastered)

September 9th 2001
Gary and I were skating at a hospital
On top of a huge hill overlooking a valley
An ambulance came in and took out a dead woman
Gary asked me why she wasn't moving or blinking
They hadn't closed her eyes yet

She must've died on the way
A car full of family and friends came in with the ambulance
They were all crying and hugging each other
One woman was screamed hysterically and grabbed at the woman's body
Asking her to wake up

I had to tell Gary that her soul went to heaven
I didn't believe a word of it
But I knew it would be easier for him to understand
Two days from now at 9 AM
The planes will hit the World Trade Center
Killing over three thousand people
I'll tell Gary that there is no god
And all of this is meaningless
But today there is a god
And he has a plan for him

He doesn't know it
But a year from now our family will be torn apart
And I will move far away
And won't see or talk to him for five years
And as we sit on the hood of our car
The sun goes down
And he asks me what I want out of my life
I tell him I don't know

(On and on we run away)
(From the things we are afraid of)
(On and on we run away)
(From the things we are afraid of)
(On and on we run away)
(From the things we are afraid)

I don't tell him about the dream I had the night before
Where I'm riding in a car full of strangers
And singing to some song I've never heard
And smoking a cigarette
I swerve off the road and hit a tree
I go through the windshield and hit the edge of a fence
Dislocating my jaw and flipping me into a wall
Where my neck is broken
And my skull is fractured
I bleed to death in excruciating pain

I'll have this dream periodically
Until I meet all of the strangers one by one
Introducing them all to each other
Until we are a close group of friends
I will set these events in motion
And I will die
But today in the warm light of the sunset
I don't see it
I just see the sunset
I smile back and shake my head
I have absolutely no idea
I am afraid