Birds without wings

Here is a dream submitted by my very lovely friend and fellow knithead, J'oga. She spent Christmas sick, so this dream may well have been the only fun she's had in days.

I had a strange recurring dream last night that I thought I would share. It doesn’t have much substance, I just thought it was interesting. All that I can remember is waking up several times during the night with a picture of Paul Reiser in my head and the song "Birds without Wings” by David Gray playing. That's it. I really don’t know if it meant much. It could have just been the Nyquil talking. I find it strange that Paul Reiser would pop up in my dream, but I guess it just goes to show what an amazing storage machine the mind is.

For the sake of perspective, I'll post the lyrics to the song J'oga referred to, followed by a photo of Paul Resier, for the study of those of us who are not in the know when it comes to pop culture.

Wishing that something would happen
A change in this place
'Cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping
Find an empty package

Take for a while
Your trumpet from your lip
Loosen your hold loosen your grip
On your old ways
That have fallen out of step
In a changing time
Hoist a new flag
Hoist a new flag

Angry sun burn down
Judging us all
Guilty of neglect and disrespect
And thinking small

And death by boredom
And death by greed
If we can't stop taking
More than we need

But across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
Tired ideas
Birds without wings

Birds without wings
Birds without wings

And these are just thoughts
Of lack lustre times
I'’ve no interest
In excuses you can find

Like you've had a hard day
Now you'’re too tired to care
Now you'’re too tired to care
You've had a hard day

Well across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
Tired ideas broken values
Many with the notion
That to share is to lose
A hollow people bound by a lack
Of imagination and too much looking back
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
Grounded by this ignorance

(And the cat comes)
We'’re just
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Birds without wings