Air Force One

Remember the day of the Terror?
I left the office and came over.
You always had the fastest browser
And your roommate's enormous TV.
We watched as they replayed the horror,
People jumping out of towers.
I swore I heard a plane flying over.
You said, ‘All right, let's go out and see.'

It was the only plane in the sky.
There was only one person permitted to fly.

I told you I'd call you later.
You were having something frozen for supper.
What a rotten end to the summer,
And a pretty shitty end to our youth.
I was living with my sister and our friend.
That afternoon, they were both working.
They hadn't seen the plane flying,
And it got lost in the haystack of news.

It was the only plane in the sky.
There was only one person permitted to fly.

Remember when we took calculus,
With that teacher like a blunderbuss?
Just trying to keep our feet under us
As he blasted us with math?
Do you remember what he meant by inflection point?
Who am I kidding, of course you don't.
Just when this whole world twisted out of joint,
There surely was a better path.

It was the only plane in the sky.
There was only one person permitted to fly.