Intro: (x3) Verse: 1 She was walking down the sidewalk Sniffing swiftly in the wind Thinking of everything and nothing Just another flighty human being And satellites where arcing Undetected overhead Her cells were busy splitting And jettisoning the dead Beauty is as beauty does In the eyes of the beholder Or collectively in all of us Instrumental: (x2) Verse: 2 She was waving to a cyclist As he went coasting by Through a lazy intersection Towards the remainder of his life And a feral cat went diving Behind a dumpster there Which displaced a big brown rat That went fleeing with a comical flair We are trapped, but we are free To go through the motions And be just as happy as we can be. Instrumental: (x2) Verse: 3 And later on I held her In my skinny arms My chapped lips were whispering Esoteric alarms But her warm breath assuaged me And the music returned Our dancing continued While big forest fires burned Outro Space is spooky and time is a trip Don't let the preachers and teachers and hipsters fool you There ain't no rips in the fabric.
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