Atlas' Marker

written by Rickie Lee Jones

Maybe you want another world
One where heaven doesn't weigh so much
Maybe you'll find another girl
One you can feel when you do not touch
Well, I've got something
Warm inside me,
It won't let you
fall 'til I see
Somewhere better than this place
Somewhere better than the world
 where we live...

I'm an Aviator now.
Atlas, hold me in your arms,
I'll fly...
Over this tenement waterfall,
This wet buries all the tears
we've cried.
I dream of you
coming to me
Swimming in a water
Of many hearts I've known...
Somewhere better than this place,
Beneath new stars they're calling,
Somewhere better than this place

Oh!
Don't stay at home
with your mom' in the dark
Go find the Arc -
Show them the Atlas' Marker!
You walk into school
like you've got nothing to win,
They won't let you in -
without Atlas' Marker

Oh!
my sister's buried here so deep,
I hear her
digging in her sleep
Somewhere better than this place.
Sometimes she closes her eyes
And she's far away...
Somewhere better than
the world where we live
... free