[Intro]

So there was this woman,
 
and she was on an airplane, 
 
and she was flying to meet her fiancé 
 
sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth, 
 
and she was seated next to this man who... you know, 
 
she had tried to start conversations, but, only, 
 
really the only thing she had heard him say was just to order his Bloody Mary, 
 
and she was sitting there 
 
and she was reading this really arduous magazine article 
 
about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the, the name of, 
 
and she was feeling very bored... and very despondent 
  
and then... and then uh, suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure 
 
and one of the, the engines gave out, 
 
and they started just falling thirty-thousand feet. 
  
The pilot's on the microphone and he's, 
 
he's saying, “I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god… I'm sorry” and apologizing, 
 
and, and she looks at the man and she, and she says, 
 
she says, she says, “Where are we going?”. 
  
And uh, and he looks at her and he says, 
  
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“We're going to a party. 
 
It, it's a birthday party. 
 
It's your birthday party, 
 
Happy birthday, darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.”
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[Verse]
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we must talk on every telephone get eaten off the web 
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we must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read 
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and to the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair 
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we must stare, we must stare, we must stare  
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we must take all of the medicine too expensive now to sell 
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set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell 
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and in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream 
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we must sing, we must sing, we must sing 
  
it'll go like this alright
[Bridge]
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While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun 
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he say death will give us back to god, just like the setting sun 
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is returned to the lonesome ocean
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[Spoken]
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And then they splashed into the deep blue sea  
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       Oh, it was a wonderful splash  
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we must blend into the choir sing a static with the whole 
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we must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul 
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and in this endless race for property and privilege to be won 
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we must run, we must run, we must run 
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we must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh 
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we must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past 
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and into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlight and our love 
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we must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
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And then we'll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything  
 
And then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it
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oh my morning's coming back the whole world's waking up 
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this city bus swimming past I'm happy just because 
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I found out I am really no one
[Outro]
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