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Intro

First you burned your own house down

Then you sold the ashes to the clown

Who painted his brow with thunderclouds

 And pulled flowers out of his mouth

Then you grabbed the bouquet and flew

From everything that asked to much of you

But the future gives birth to both sorrow and mirth

 It don't matter what you say or do

And now, you pray for a dry canteen

 So you can dare an empty sky to rain

 Then you shake your fist, you can't resist

Does anybody feel your pain?

 You're alone and you can't go home again

They look for you in the leaves of magazines,

In picaresque stories, in penny arcade portraits of Lauren Bacall

While I look for you in the dye of canceled stamps,

In the panic of sirens, in the vanishing kite strings of airplane exhaust

But nobody can catch the arsonist

Enjoy.