Oh please. Stop sending out invitations to your pity party. No one will arrive, not even the balloon man.

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they will see us waving from such great heights come down now they'll say swing, like a chariot at the trumpet call when we're all unsaved swing when god said here's your future it's gonna rain i put on my overcoat and walked into winter - my teeth chattered rhythms right off, no never never ever ever right off turning into the light she don't think straight and there is nothing left to say if i shout, you wouldn't listen out of phase, off center, and off cell bleaching your teeth, smiling flash, talking trash under my window talking shit about a pretty sunset blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon you're never going to feel as full as you felt so let's go outside and we'll play william tell take your time a phantom and a fly follow the lines and wonder why there's no connection through the aging, the fear and the strife it's the smiling on the package it's the faces in the sand it's out here we don't hear anything but the clicking of the rain against the leaves held on high from up, up, up above from the glass on the floor and the strings that're breaking let’s forget who forget what forget where we’ll have bizarre celebrations let's go sailing (let's go sailing) let's get a bite to eat (let's get a bite to eat) let's go left by the lamp, right next to the bed, on a cartoon cat pad she scratched with a pen late night liquor blue will lead me to the floor can we fake it can we make believe with your telescope eyes, metal teeth based upon truth or dare decision-making shirley temple and a cellular phone no one to call no one to ring i thought i told you this world was not for you i never finish phrases i misspell an open arm's a prison cell jam another dragon down the hole cut away, cut away send transmission from the one-armed scissor the one wrong song, telling me i've been here too long (enough said) and i'm gone blue to gray, grow up and blow away