Leave My Body, Keep My Name

I’m lying flat on the carpet

Clock says 3 and it laughs

Ceiling looks like an atlas

Lines and cracks making maps

I feel my fingers get lighter

Like they forgot they’re attached

My name is pinned to my body

But my mind slips through the latch

Astral projection

Leave my body

Keep my name

I’m a question

Hanging just above the frame

I’m electric

Thread of gold that you can’t tame

Astral projection

Touch the fire

Feel no flame

Apartment windows like portals

Every blue screen a new sky

I watch myself from the corner

See my chest rise

Then glide

Past all the bills on the table

Over that photo we hate

I’m in the hall with the shadows

But they can’t match my shape

Astral projection

Leave my body

Keep my name

I’m a question

Hanging just above the frame

I’m electric

Thread of gold that you can’t tame

Astral projection

Touch the fire

Feel no flame

I drift over old conversations (oh)

Every word looks small from here

All the grudges lose their color

Every panic

Every fear

If I don’t come back by morning

Tell them I learned one thing:

You can step outside your story

And still feel everything

Astral projection

Leave my body

Keep my name

I’m a question

Hanging just above the frame

I’m electric

Thread of gold that you can’t tame

Astral projection

Touch the fire

Feel no flame