It's Personal Lyrics

Balloons untied themselves from my wrists

But I never felt unlucky.

I still hold a grudge

Against a grade school teacher

Who rolled her eyes and said

No way

An ostrich of paper mache

Would use too many supplies

The day I saw a dead elephant

Lifted out of its cage by a crane

I sat down

It was summer

Sparrows fluttered the bench

And I embraced this gift of living

This air so amply filled with ache

Between my ears are excuses

And superstitions

I'll give up a job if my name is wrong

On the badge

I don't trust

Slogans small cars cloudy tap water

Pine scented candles

Make me weak

Men and women

Beg in front of the Chase

Manhattan Plaza

And I'm guilty of knowing

The basement vault

Is the size of a football field

The day I saw a dead elephant

Lifted out of its cage by a crane

I sat down

It was summer

Sparrows fluttered the bench

And I embraced this gift of living

This air so amply filled with ache

This air so amply filled with ache

Adrenaline be damned

I don't want

To be sober on a small plane

If I kneel on Sunday there

Are dusty reasons

If it's unaccompanied

Let it be a cello

The day I saw a dead elephant

Lifted out of its cage by a crane

I sat down

It was summer

Sparrows fluttered the bench

And I embraced this gift of living

This air so amply filled with ache

Once I liked being as busy as a key

Now I long for a year with a sundial and no sun

In the tropics I would rot

In this short life

We should love our words

Tremellaceous expiscation bombazine

But graduations and weddings seem such formidable punctuation

The funeral I can buy

The day I saw a dead elephant

Lifted out of its cage by a crane

I sat down

It was summer

Sparrows fluttered the bench

And I embraced this gift of living

This air so amply filled with ache

I embraced this gift of living

This air so amply filled with ache

So amply filled with ache

So amply filled with ache