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"So there was this woman and she was, uh, on an airplane And she was flying to meet her fiance Sailing high above the, the largest ocean on planet earth And she was seated next to this man, who You know, she had tried to start conversations And the only, really the only thing she heard him say was Was to order his, his Bloody Mary And she's sitting there and she was reading this Really arduous magazine article about a third world country That she couldn't even pronounce the, the name of And she was feeling very bored and very despondent And then, uh, suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure And one of the, the engines gave out And they started just falling thirty-thousand feet The pilot's on the, on the microphone and he's, he's saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god, I'm sorry' and apologizing And she looks at the man and she, and she says, she says She says 'Where are we going?' And he looks at her and he says 'We're going to a party It's a birthday party, it's your birthday party Happy birthday, darling We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much' And then, uhm, he starts humming this little tune And, and uh, it kind of goes like this, it's kinda One, two, one, two, three, four" We must talk on every telephone Get eaten off the web We must rip out all the epilogues From the books that we have read And to the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair We must stare, we must stare, we must stare We must take all of the medicines Too expensive now to sell Set fire to the preacher Who is promising us hell And in the ear of every anarchist That sleeps but doesn't dream We must sing, we must sing, we must sing And it'll go like this, alright While my mother waters plants My father loads his gun He says death will give us back to God Just like the setting sun Its return to the lonesome ocean And then they splashed into the deep blue sea Oh, it was a wonderful splash We must blend into the choir Sing ecstatic with the whole Must memorize nine numbers And deny we have a soul And in this endless race for property And privilege to be one We must run, we must run, we must run We must hang up in the belfry Where the bats and moonlight laugh We must stare into a crystal ball And only see the past And into the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge And then we'll get down there Way down to the very bottom of everything And then we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up Oh, the city bus is swimming past I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one
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Genres
Acoustic
Alternative
Folk
Indie
Rock
Moods
Calm & Peaceful
Fun
Romantic
Beautiful
Vocals
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