Standard (EADGBE)

you wake up in the morning

 and fall out of your bed

mean cat eat parakeets

 and this one's nearly dead.

 you dearly wish the wind shift

 and greasy windows slide

open for the parakeet

 who's colored bitter lime.

open the window

 and lift into your dreams

lately, baby

you can barely breathe.

 a broken wrist an accident

 you know that something's wrong

 you fold the leavings of your past

 no one knows you've gone.

 the sunspot flares of the early

 nineties light up your wings.

 and scan the shortwave radio

 it's tracking outer rings.

open your window

 to lift into a dream

baby, baby

you can starts to breathe

 the tectonic dispatcher shifts

 to smooth the ocean floor

 and flattens out to warmer winds

 of Brisbane's sunny shore.

 where buddhas tend to mending wrists

 a tea made from the leaves

 of eucalyptus fragrances

 and coriander seeds.

open the window

 to lift into a dream

baby, baby

you can starts to breathe.

open your window

 to lift into a dream

baby, baby

you can starts to breathe

 you wake up in the morning

 to warm Pacific breeze

 where mean cars chew on licorice

 and cannot climb the trees.