The girl looks out from the window of the airplane 

20,000 feet up in the sky 

she picks a rooftop in the middle of the town 

and wonders what is happening inside 


the tv in the kitchen flashes faces 

the woman slowly pushes in the chairs 

her neighbors son is fighting in the army 

she's concentrating to remember where 


who can know the pain the joy the regret the satisfaction/passion 

who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul 

at two you're at abstraction 


The man is waiting for the bus into the city 

He's grabs a drink slowly reads the Times 

His heart is captured by a story of a child 

Around the world/ miles away but always on his mind 


a million this a million that 

a mass sum of individuals 

a million come/here a million go/there 

made up of a million souls