Sky-Scraper Shaman

Paint on your suit

Ash on your ties

You pray to the clock

In a glass sunrise

You trade your sleep

For a corner of sky

You kiss that keycard

Like it’s keeping you alive

Sky-scraper shaman

Preaching from a rooftop ledge

Got your briefcase full of omens

Coffee stains along the edge

You burn sage in the stairwell

You chant through the fluorescent rain

Sky-scraper shaman

Saving souls on the 40th plane (oh)

You bless the spreadsheets

Name every cell

Light little candles

For the days that went to hell

You draw a doorway

In the margin of a plan

You say the exit

Is already in your hands

Sky-scraper shaman

Preaching from a rooftop ledge

Got your briefcase full of omens

Coffee stains along the edge

You burn sage in the stairwell

You chant through the fluorescent rain

Sky-scraper shaman

Saving souls on the 40th plane

You say

“Breathe in

The fire drills

Sirens

Breathe out

Every broken deadline”

You write one word

On a sticky note

“stay”

Then throw it from the window

Like a tiny paper prayer (hey!)

Sky-scraper shaman

Preaching from a rooftop ledge

Got your briefcase full of omens

Coffee stains along the edge

You burn sage in the stairwell

You chant through the fluorescent rain

Sky-scraper shaman

Turning steel into sacred flame