Imagination

I made a town in my shoebox

With a bridge out over the sink

Tiny cops in a paper car

Chasing a thought too hard to think

My walls all lean like tired men

My name keeps changing in the paint

I draw a door on the ceiling

Just to see what I ain't

If the floor gives way

I'll call it a sky

If the glass stays dark

I'll still let it lie

In the crack of a doubt

There's a room I can keep

Where the dead little rules

Can't get to my sleep

Let me build it up

Let me burn it down

Imagination

Turns the whole world around

I was lost in the size

Of a life I could make

Imagination

More than I can fake

I fed my ghosts on cereal

Watched them fight over the blue

Wrote my fear a passport

Said, "Go on, see what it can do"

The mirror said, "Be useful"

The clock said, "Be small"

But I got a wild train rolling

Through the gaps in the wall

If the floor gives way

I'll call it a sky

If the glass stays dark

I'll still let it lie

In the crack of a doubt

There's a room I can keep

Where the dead little rules

Can't get to my sleep

Let me build it up

Let me burn it down

Imagination

Turns the whole world around

I was lost in the size

Of a life I could make

Imagination

More than I can fake

Maybe hope is a bruise

That refuses to heal

Maybe truth is a fence

I can finally peel

I keep one hand in the dirt

One hand in the flame

If the world wants my silence

It can learn my name

Let me build it up

Let me burn it down

Imagination

Turns the whole world around

I was lost in the size

Of a life I could make

Imagination

More than I can fake

I made a town in my shoebox

And I live there still

Where the broken can bloom

If they want to

If they will