Everything Connects

Everything Connects A flash in the window A sound down the hall The sunset lights up the wall And takes me somewhere else An old movie, a song, a face A road I can’t explain how to reach [Verse 1] Every detail pulls a thread Every thread leads somewhere new Before I know it, I’ve been traveling Somewhere I never meant to go [Pre-Chorus] There are a thousand tabs open A thousand signals in the air I see it all, I hear it all Where did my focus disappear? [Chorus] Everything connects, everything wants to speak A beat takes hold of me and pulls me to my feet Everything connects, I can’t decide what to do I remember everything… except what I came here to do [Verse 2] I start three things before my coffee One idea becomes a plan I’m in a hurry to get everywhere Then I stop, still trying to begin I speak before the sentence finds its shape Switch tracks halfway through a thought I interrupt — it isn’t that I don’t care It’s a wave that never learned to wait [Pre-Chorus] There are a thousand tabs open A thousand signals in the air I see it all, I hear it all Where did my focus disappear? [Chorus] Everything connects, I can’t decide what to do I remember everything… except what I came here to do [Bridge] One picture: that summer That movie, that song The person, the conversation The place where it all began Farther and farther, with no direction Then back in a flash, right in the middle of the action From the outside, maybe it looks funny I laugh too — when I remember what I was saying [Break] I was going… I was coming… I was thinking… [Final Chorus] Everything connects, everything wants to speak A beat takes hold of me and pulls me to my feet Everything connects, let the whole world glow I remember everything… Except what I came here to do [Outro] The sunset is gone The music stays on I lost the thread of the story But look at that butterfly — how beautiful Now I’m thinking of another moment Of chaos theory, of all that can unfold It’s wild how far my daydreams take me One little wingbeat, and there I go