Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?

NO: "And I'm touched by the seams that I feel in the thread Just to know that you can Makes me see it The idea in your head And the goblets in your hands On a mission to a heart ache land"

YES: "And I'm touched by the same sad feeling of dread Just to know that you can't wait to see me dead With a needle in your head a compass in your hand On a mission to a foreign land."

I've noticed a lot of things I'm certain are wrong. The fourth stanza should be:

"So now I'm out for political favors Salary that corresponds with labor Big house and a morning paper Good fences that make good neighbors"

The last line is from a Robert Frost poem.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of other lines aren't 100% as well, but I have nothing concrete to back it up.

Great song, though. Very open-ended lyrically, like most Clap Your Hands songs.

Thank you very much

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Why the hell are my comments being cut off?

Anyway, thanks. Most likely, I've misheard a good deal of lyrics. Good thing there's an edit button, yeah?

this is the second half as i understood it, there are a lot of things that i thought different than your version, i may be wrong on some parts tho.

I'm at the end This here my rope Another year to write and read the book I wrote

No dialing out For a good time To bathroom wall Toss it a dime

Dead king dead swing Ali look out! We have new rules To do wihtout You talk of Jesus Until I'm well red

The man is Swimming Swimming Swimming in my head

Why settle down? Why even try? Me tiger mouth Meet bloodless eye

So drop dead stock What fallen tree? I leave New York For other cities

Which let me play With gas and fire Took out an ad Best friend for hire

Know that Mama told me Never to come But I cam softly, slowly Banging me metal drum

Like Berryman Bed-wet poet fears That better men drink taller beers

Like scientist I lost my glove To bloody fists And harder drugs

So split the night And we get young Like sacred cow Without a tongue who sang a song sing

"time does not cut deep but cuts most absurdly....." so la da dum

this is the second half as i understood it, there are a lot of things that i thought different than your version, i may be wrong on some parts tho.

I'm at the end This here my rope Another year to write and read the book I wrote

No dialing out For a good time To bathroom wall Toss it a dime

Dead king dead swing Ali look out! We have new rules To do wihtout You talk of Jesus Until I'm well red

The man is Swimming Swimming Swimming in my head

Why settle down? Why even try? Me tiger mouth Meet bloodless eye

So drop dead stock What fallen tree? I leave New York For other cities

Which let me play With gas and fire Took out an ad Best friend for hire

Know that Mama told me Never to come But I cam softly, slowly Banging me metal drum

Like Berryman Bed-wet poet fears That better men drink taller beers

Like scientist I lost my glove To bloody fists And harder drugs

So split the night And we get young Like sacred cow Without a tongue who sang a song sing

"time does not cut deep but cuts most absurdly....." so la da dum

Ah, thanks. Those lyrics seem a lot better.

The opening lines are actually: "Invisible like all the reasons Dark and cold like all the seasons"

I'm curious to hear about thoughts on the meanings (not lyrics) to this song...