Fluorescein

Fluorescein
Wipe away the summer air
You don't want to see
That's you in that Photograph from 1973
And you don't even know me
God only Knows I want to be
The other side of misery
Gimme a plate of Fluorescein
I'm gonna paint an ugly scene
All of the things I want to say
Can't get a word out anyway
Falling away after today
Nothing to lose so come what may

Don't wake me
You got away from me somehow
And all we tried to be
Everything is different now
The mind's eye fails to see
And all we know is TV
Inside, I rise above this shallow world
Inside, I rise above this sorrow