At This Velocity — Thursday

We were safe, now we're paralyzed Suspended in flight At this speed it makes no difference Where I start or where I end Or if you're sitting in an emergency aisle

We could be dead, complete the equation Our names are x and n We have no value in these calculations

Placed on a plane pointed straight down Traveling at five hundred feet per second Five thousand feet from the ground

How long will it take us to hit? How fast until we start the disintegration?

Don't die now Just keep moving Don't stop now Just keep moving

How fast will it take us to hit? How long until we start the disintegration?

We could be safe, now, forever Falling in the clean blue air Somewhere between the sun that gives us light And the ground that puts it out

And we kneel in the aisles Press our hands together And close our eyes, speak these words so softly to the black box And it goes

"Mother, father can you hear this? I want to thank you for all your sweetness. I'm not coming home, never coming home again."