Make No Mistakes

I’m running out of atmosphere and full of fear
Like a blood-red riverbed running through my head
It occupies every path: a polymath
Like a feline paradox still inside a box
Burn it on the back of my right hand
Gotta stay up all night and make no mistakes

No, I can’t help working overtime
To cast out the paradigm
Open the door and let it fly
Repay the sky
But they don’t get what it means to me
Capital letter GUARANTEE
What can I do, what can I say?
How do I make it go away?

Away, away
Away, away
A way, some way to make it go away
Another day
Make no mistakes

I’m spinning like a satellite into the night
Like a contact artifact tripping off a track
Still trying to understand a narrow band
Of a hazy radio archipelago
Burn it on the back of my right hand
Gotta stay up all night and make no mistakes

No, I can’t help working down to the bone
To escape the comfort zone
Open the door and let it fly
Repay the sky
But they don’t care what it means to me
Capital letter FANCY-FREE
What can I do, what can I say?
How do I make it go away?

Away, away
Away, away
A way, some way to make it go away
Another day
Make no mistakes

I’m running out of time
My life is flying by
Can’t keep it all, no, I can’t stand to keep it inside
I work so hard, well, I try
Trying to run from the night

I’m falling out of shadows cast after outlasting
An inside override, now identified
As keeping my head enshrouded in a cloudy
Miasma: mutable, so inscrutable
Burn it on the back of my right hand
Gotta stay up all night and make no mistakes

No, I can’t help working overtime
(Away, away)
To cast out the paradigm
Open the door and let it fly
(Away, away)
Reach for the sky
But they don’t like what it means to me
(A way, some way to)
Capital letter DISAGREE
What can I do, what can I say?
(Make it go away, another day)
How do I make no mistakes?

I’m almost out of time
My life, it flew right by
Didn’t keep it all
No, I just couldn’t keep it inside
I worked so hard, really tried
Trying to get it right