Also a
song, written by
Vic Chesnutt and performed by the band
Live at an
MTV Unplugged gig.
At the close of this soulwrenchingly beautiful song, Ed Kowalczyk mentions, in his brief way, who wrote the song and that it's "absolutely the most beautiful song ever written by a human being." If you mean his version of it (though I haven't heard any other), I'll add my vote to that.
The lyrics by themselves don't even come close to doing it justice, but they are, I think, very nice on their own as well. Parts of it remind me of that numinous feeling you get when coming out of general anesthsia:
"It was an out of body experience
yes i flew around
a hospital room once
on intreveneous demerol
you weren't supernatural"
This use of copyrighted lyrics is for archival, appreciation and commentary uses, which is fully covered under fair use provisions--even *after* the DMCA gutted them--so you can stop being paranoid now.