Otherwise (final draft)

She wakes and stretches, checks her phone,

"My God, it's 6am"

Wakes her man, carries her boy, then heads straight to the van

Greets a couple in the back, saying, "Sorry we're late"

Now right beside her is her son askin' 'bout this and that

Going on about meeting and feeding elephants

His dad beside him says, "Quiet, my love, learn to wait,"

Ooh, the child looks out the window and smiles

Ooh, with nothing much to do I join him for while

Then in my mind

I heard my spirit say,

"Blue sky,

Why do we cry?

Is it sorrow or joy

We perceive with our eyes

Are the colors so bright

A trick of the light

The awe of the boy says otherwise

The awe of the boy says otherwise"

End of the day we're driving back and now the family's gone

Rest of the trip was pretty peaceful, there was something wrong

See and hear and touch and taste and (smell) and something else I couldn't put my finger on

I felt it creeping on my lips through a shared cigarette

Bittersweet just like a kiss upon a hospital bed

The thought of losing this moment reminds me that I'm just a sentimental kid

Ooh, they’re laughing at the smoke rings again

Ooh, I curse my lungs and breathe it all in

Tears in my eyes

I turn my gaze away

Blue sky,

Why do we cry?

Is it sorrow or joy

We perceive with our eyes

Are the colors so bright

A trick of the light

The awe of the boy says otherwise

The awe of the boy says otherwise

"Everything will meet its sorry end

Every face is just a fading friend"

This unbelief is just a hindrance

Help me to see with eyes of faith again

"Everything will meet its sorry end

Every face is just a fading friend"

This unbelief is just a hindrance

Help me to see with eyes of faith again

Help me to see with eyes of faith again

Help me to see with eyes of faith again

(This unbelief is just a hindrance)

Help me to see with childlike faith again