the balloon and sun (blowing up) Lyrics

I'm blowing up

I belong to too much

So I am untethered

We're deeply in touch

But seldom together

I'll love y'all anywhere,

There for you forever

I am but a bundle of balloons

Unleashed in the lazy late afternoon

With a trip and a call and some wind and some lift

I will insist on drifting towards you

Sometimes I worry that I'm overblown

Blowing too far or with helium bloat

It's not that I am stretched too thin

I feel so full it's hard to contain all of it

If I drift to a bad place

Please pull me down and give chase

Y'all are so grounding

When you care to reach for my strings

It's an omnidirectional march

Without end and dense with starts

I belong to just enough

So i am abundant

Helium's not heavy

It's near light as nothing

I am unburdened

And make the world bubbly

But sometimes I worry that I'm overblown

Blowing too far or with helium bloat

It's not that I am stretched too thin

I feel so full it's hard to contain all of it

If I drift to a bad place

Please pull me down and give chase

Y'all are so grounding

When you care to reach for my strings

It's terrifying to surrender to trust

To let my every rubber color run Amok

I'll rely on others on the blusteriest days

I belong to everywhere

And I'm unrestrained

I'll never pop

In the warm embrace

Of our golden hours

And glory days

Soaking sun in in my rubber skins

I'm in a giggly and gaseous state

Slow and steady is what it takes to win

So I hover high off helium intake

Though sometimes I worry that I'm overblown

Blowing too far or with helium bloat

It's not that I am stretched too thin

I feel so full it's hard to contain all of it

When I do pop, stow me away

My string and shell will never decay

But my helium will rise forever

To outer space

I'll whiz by the sun's rays

Whose diprotons burn

While mine fly away

I guess it's about taking turns

On and off this earthly plane

So stick around and yearn

Sunshine and I are made of the same

So please tell me why

I shouldn't be free range

I think I should be free range

I'm blowing up