Ceiling Gazing - Mark Kozelek

Laying in my bed, ceiling gazing

Wide awake with jet-lag from Australia

Got a stack of mail, and a wedding invitation

From a new, young relative I never even knew

Got me thinking about my grandpa for some reason

Met him half a dozen times in a nursing home

The last time I saw him, he was in a box

And they were lowering him into the ground

St. Mary’s Church stood so high

It was the first and the last time I saw my dad cry

The ground had a thin coat of snow,

And we wondered off in the cold.

It’s 3: 47 AM June 13th

It’s my sister’s birthday today, I think

Gonna give her a call, and see how she’s doing

She had a rough divorce, I hope she’s improved

I wanna reach out, and give her my love

Put a smile on her face, like when we were young

Listening to records from the library

Hermit of Mink Hollow and Dreamboat Annie

She lives with her daughters, all alone

Across the street from a cornfield in Ohio

One’s four, one’s seven, and I love them so,

I wanna live a long time, and see them grow.

Outside my window tonight

Sausalito’s twinkling lights

My love’s beside me, deep asleep

Dog is laying between my feet

Outside my window tonight

A cargo ship’s cruising by

And I’m so happy to be alive

To have these people in my life

Laying in my bed, ceiling gazing

Can’t make my mind stop from racing

It’s not good or bad, it’s just how god made me

To lay awake at night, ceiling gazing.