James Strange Dream: James Strange Dream

I was thinking of jumping off a building last night before I went to sleep
Later when I was dreaming, I guess I decided to take that leap
As I was falling through the nighttime sky the ground was nowhere in sight
Then I met up with this TV that was falling through the night
So I tuned it in to try to catch my last episode of Cheers
Instead, I saw my friends and family with eyes all full of tears
I wondered: why are they crying on such a sunny sunny day?
One looked at me and said it was 'cause I'd thrown my life away

The screen jumped back to a time when I still alive
I think it took me back to when I was just about five
It quickly took me through all the events of my life
It showed me all the good times and it showed me all the strife
But in seeing all these old events, there was something new to see
You see, I was helping people, and there were people helping me
I guess I never realized that I had done any good
And it gave my heart a boost just to know that I could

I kept on watching just to see what else there was
And I played a little with the tuning, I don't know why, just because
Well the next scene on the screen was one I had never seen before
It was a strange room in a strange place with a purple paisley door
Of all the faces there, there were some I recognized
But I could see there was something missing, I could see it in their eyes
One looked at me and told me what was missing from all these souls
I was supposed to meet them and instead I left a hole

Well the screen to black and the TV went away
And there I sat falling with nothing much left to say
I realized that things were pretty good, and my life had meaning too
And that jumping off this building was kind of a stupid thing to do
There was however one slight flaw wih this revelation I'd seen
The ground was fast approaching, and looking very mean
There's nothing I could do at this point to change my destiny
'Cause you simply cannot change the laws of gravity