Your Most Valuable Possession Songtext

von Ben Folds Five

(6: 49 a.m, Friday, November 20th)
"Good morning, Mr. Ben.
It's about 6: 30 —
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Um... just laying here in the bed,
Half awake, half asleep,
Thinking about you.

I was wondering if you were looking
After your most valuable possession:
Your mind.

I was thinking about John Glenn,
His space journey and all.

They said that when you're in space
You lose muscle mass and the body
Mass and I wondered if there was any
End to it.

Or whether,
If you didn't exercise in space, how
Long it would be before you were just
A head, or a mind — and have no body
Or arms. You'd have them but you
Couldn't use them.

I was wondering if if your body mass
Would drop to a certain level, and then
It would stop right there. And keep
Whatever you needed to use your mind
Because it would still be working."

(30 seconds remaining)

"Anyway, I was just pondering that.
What do you think about... that?

I hope everything is going alright.
I may well wake up here in a little while
And forget what I was thinking about."