Kite Flying Lyrics - Joseph Kerschbaum

The sky was so blue 

That it wasn't blue any longer 

The sky ascended our spectrum 

And forged its own definition of blue 

Every time that sky goes back into my mind 

The colors shift 

The blue gets blue-er and the horizon widens 

The ink spot in that new blue sky was my kite 

As I raised it higher into the atmosphere 

I felt like I was riding the wind 

And disappearing into the new blue distance 

But my feet were hard on the ground 

When I was a child 

This was my favorite way to spend an afternoon 

The last time I flew a kite 

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The time when blue wasn't the ocean 

It wasn't a mood 

It wasn't rain clouds 

And it wasn't the sky 

This blue was all of them 

Or maybe I was all of them 

And the sky was just the sky 

My kite was as high as the rope would let it go 

My feet were walking on a world no longer my own 

The last time I flew a kite 

I wasn't flying a kite 

It's strange how we try to balance 

Two things that don't equate in any way 

We compensate sadness with food 

Longing with drinking 

And absence with anything to pass the empty days 

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We make things up to feel better 

The little mnemonic devices that alleviates whatever ills us 

Like a blue sky, but my blue sky was real 

It was all over my head 

The last time I flew a kite 

The sky wasn't blue and the sky wasn't inside me 

Maybe I made it up 

Maybe it was raining 

As my kite rose higher 

I know I saw that blue 

At that moment 

Color splashed into my black and white life 

Standing in the middle of an open field 

With the wind in my face 

I lost myself 

And just for a minute 

I lost your absence 

You were still gone 

You just weren't on my mind 

Finally, I could breathe 

And my mouth didn't have your aftertaste 

That kite had nothing to do with you 

Which is why it released me 

It was untainted with my present situation 

And it solely possessed my childhood 

That blue wasn't the ocean 

A mood 

A rain cloud 

O the sky 

But it had nothing to do with your death 

It only had to do with me 

At least for a moment 

As my kite rose higher into that impossible blue 

I thought about how we never flew kites together