Hurrah

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I looked at the sea Where the waves were going I looked at the sky And it was all bright [Chorus] Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! [Verse 2] I looked at the light I said, "Girl, you're glowing!" I looked at the night And it was all right [Chorus] Hurrah! Hurrah! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah [Instrumental Interlude] [Verse 3] Cold: Along where the snow keeps blowing (Seventeen years) Warm: Inside the white of a fire (Seventeen years) Higher up: On the fine skyscraper (Seventeen years) Low down: Where your dad goes to "retire" (Sevеnteen years) [Chorus] Hurrah! Hurrah! (Ah, can you stop it?) [Cheering Sample] [Bridge] And I dig the jitters Thе skittering A shivering populace That only paid to hear their most secret wish betrayed and then to quick-fade when shit gets ponderous They want fraudulent false confidence Not some ballpoint-bursting laundry list Yeah, I took a rock to the head I was stranded in the wind That river was buried, or maybe, who knows? I felt the hit, and the arc of bright blood froze there There In midair In that moment in my mind I dreamt a forty-foot crocodile devoured my email address I dreamt no one knew my middle name I dreamt a reanimated divorcee shoved her whole hand down my throat to place a small, delicate leaf in my left lung So we were looking at Lovestreams Andy walked backwards through a thicket of swords Liz decided she couldn't go a day without Adderall, it became unbearable Gary broke a speed-walking record without anybody noticing He was moving But he was moving He was moving It was moving back then When I packed myself in a large cardboard box and sat quiet by the earth's hot screaming heart and stayed there four hundred years, and when I got out, it was 1986 again And your dog was still alive And your father was still alive And your favorite singer was still alive And your parents were still in love And this was doing fine And that cost just a dime, and I was ten