One Percent

Lyrics

[ATROPOS, spoken] They're very important scissors [MICKEY, spoken] Oh, here's a pair [ATROPOS, spoken] Those? Off-brand! Wouldn't cut paper! [MICKEY, spoken] Ma'am? Ma'am [MICKEY] Things get lost That stuff happens People drop stuff on the ground Does no good to lose your temper Blow your lid, nothing will get found Look at this box, it's full of missing things That wind up in the basement And only one percent of all these things Will make it back upstairs You'd think they'd notice what they've lost But they don't You'd think they'd come to make a claim But they won't There's only one percent of people Who will comе to take what's theirs This book has been down herе As long as I've been working in the basement I read it bit by bit on breaks Like, while my lunch got microwaved See, it's a paperback Of Robinson Crusoe And see, I found it, bookmarked On page fifty-two, so Someone up there lost it And I wonder if they know that he got saved Things get lost But then there is that one percent Of things we've lost We didn't lose by accident We lose our hearts We lose our minds We lose some big important things We're never gonna find Tangled up with yo-yo strings See this string? Stupid simple Takes my mind off other stuff You could say this string is boring Sometimes, though, boring is enough