Lucifer

The Police - Invisible Sun

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say
I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a goverment chart

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

It's dark all day, and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

And they're only going to change this place by
Killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives us hope when the whole day's done


This song meant a lot to me when i was a little younger and sailing. It used to play in my head when I was furling sail 80 feet in the air and 20 feet out over the water. At that point in time, "I don't ever want to play the part of a statistic on a goverment chart", meant for me that I was never going to lead a normal 9-5 life. Of course I realize that the Police meant something else, but I think that it can mean whatever to whomever. Now, I seem to have sold out to the man a little, but that song reminds me that once a upon a time, I lived on the periphery of society, and was happy to do it.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

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