O Great Squiggly Line

There it is again.
No... don't look.
Just... let it come.

I woke this morning, and you were there
A silver thread hung on the air
I turned to greet you, you slipped away
Like a whispered secret that won't stay

Are you shy, little stranger?
Turn my gaze and you fly away
Look away, and you're back again to play

O great squiggly line
Drifting through the corners of my mind
When I chase you, you're gone
When I let go, you come floating on
O great squiggly line
Are you a message, are you a sign?
Tell me what you mean
O great squiggly line

Sometimes a circle, sometimes a thread
Sometimes a cloud that drifts ahead
Sometimes a dot, a tiny star
I never know just what you are

Do you dream? Do you sleep?
Where do you go when you are not with me?

O great squiggly line
Drifting through the corners of my mind
When I chase you, you're gone
When I let go, you come floating on
O great squiggly line
Are you a message, are you a sign?
Tell me what you mean
O great squiggly line

And now and then, a little flash
A spark of lightning, then a splash
Is that you knocking, is that you calling?
The universe winking, the heavens falling?

Perhaps you are the first thought
that ever was.
Perhaps you were here before me,
and you'll be here after.
Perhaps the whole universe
is just one squiggly line...
and we are all just floating in it.
Wow.

I tried to stare you down for hours
I tried with incense, tried with flowers
I closed my mind, I let it be
And there you were... just next to me

What are you? What are you?
Why do you come? Why do you go?
Why do you vex me so?
Why do you vex me so?

O great squiggly line
You were never mine to define
The more I seek, the less I find
O great squiggly line
Teacher, trickster, friend divine
Swimming slowly out of time
I forgive you, you are fine
O great squiggly line

Don't look...
Don't look...
...there you are.