Mr. Word Lyrics

Oh, Mr. Fallen Word

What have you heard

Did something perturb

You last night

Now, you're gone like the autumn bird

Regrow, reburn

Forget, relearn

It's not right

When you pay a man to sit and watch your TV

Pretending to fade away

And you wonder why

You'd pay to never see another day

Oh, Mr. Common Word

Don't be so sure that

Resemblance ushers

What is right

Now, you're lost in the what-is-heard

Retrospector

An interceptor

From that night

When you paid a man to sit uncomfortably

And wonder why he's turning green

And you wonder why

You're sick and tired of asking

What they mean

Liam on the flugel, everybody

When you paid a man to sit and watch you

Fade out like the TV

But you really only dearly

Want to live now, but you're fading quickly

How can you live so nearly close to

Half the heart you're beating

To the rhythm

Of the knowing

You're the only one you're cheating