Tracing our lifeline on your back Through every crossroad and shoulder blade Over every vertebrae under the gray sky One step over the edge of the world To where the sighs and whispers fall Where the grass is fed by our salty tears And gods hum and ignore their tiny worshipers Climbing up the brown branches of your hair To meet your head in the clouds They will see the finger pointing down And jump off like a leaf in autumn Snatched in the air by your hand They can find out who they were and will be As they rest their heads on your palm When they wake up their masks will be gone And they will smile