Let the lantern fly up
Lighting a little 3 by 3 foot area in the sky
As twilight falls it makes the day turn to an end

The moon and stars rise like marionettes ready to dance
The puppeteer is somewhere we cannot see
But his puppet show doesn’t matter

Up here where the world can’t touch us, the world can’t hurt us
I divulge my secrets to you
Perhaps we could pause time, pause this moment where we are actually living

On this parking garage roof, center downtown just east of the north side
You whisper to me nothing is perfect and I believe this
But somehow this life in this moment just seems too perfect

Pause it and never return to it
The pulsing music filling our souls
Tonight it will be just us

Sitting above the pain of the world
Music blasting, drowning out the universe
Past social justification, where they tell us we haven’t yet lived, we laugh at the lie

Lanterns flying into the air, illuminating our night
From the matches the smoke rises in twirls and loops
Smoke will evaporate when the lanterns light up the night