The Boy In The Bubble

Gabriel Peter

It was a slow day
And the sun was beating 
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light 
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio, and

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call 
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation 
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder 
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry

It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand 
Falling on the children 
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call 
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we look to us all, oh, yeah
The way we look to a distant constellation 
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder 
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry

It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start 
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
Think of the boy in the bubble 
And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires, and, baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call 
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we look to us all, oh, yeah
The way we look to a distant constellation 
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder 
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry