[ti:Plus Ones]
[ar:Okkervil River]
[al:The Stage Names]
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[00:06.33]No one wants to hear about your 97th tear
[00:10.64]So dry your eyes or let it go uncried my dear
[00:15.38]I am all out of love to mouth into your ear
[00:20.56]And not above letting a love song disappear before it's written
[00:29.51]
[00:31.45]And no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon
[00:35.88]That was seen shooting from the window of your room
[00:40.81]To be a spot against the sky's colossal gloom and land deflated
[00:47.42]In some neighbor state that's strewn with 99 others
[00:53.92]8 Chinese brothers
[01:01.28]Well there's a reason why the last is smiling wide
[01:05.27]And sitting higher than the others
[01:08.58]Swinging his arms
[01:13.07]
[01:14.88]You would probably die before you shot up 9 miles high
[01:19.00]Your eyes dilated as light plays upon the sight
[01:23.68]Of TVC one-six as it sings you goodnight
[01:27.42]Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45
[01:32.91]I hope you're feeling better
[01:36.35]The 51st way to leave your lover
[01:43.33]Admittedly doesn't seem to be as gentle
[01:47.70]Or as clean as all the others
[01:50.70]Leaving its scars
[01:53.69]All in the after hours of some Greenpoint bar
[02:00.31]
[02:01.06]I told you I can't listen baby
[02:03.62]About the 4th time you were a lady
[02:06.24]And how your forthrightness betrayed a secret shyness
[02:08.61]Stripped away by days of being hailed as Your Highness
[02:16.16]And what's new pussycat is that you were once a lioness
[02:21.15]They cut your claws out
[02:25.02]Kitten not everyone's keen on lighting candle 17
[02:30.20]The party's done The cake's all gone The plates are clean
[02:35.75]The chauffeur's leering from the cheerless mezzanine
[02:40.37]And in just 1 year the straight world can pay to see
[02:44.93]What they have been missing
[02:47.68]
[02:50.42]You were caught kissing 8 Chinese brothers
[02:55.35]But there's a reason why the last is smiling wide
[02:59.47]And sitting higher than the others stinking with charm
[03:06.02]
[03:08.52]And he says Let's get lost Let them send out alarms
[03:15.01]He says Let's get crossed out and come to harm
[03:20.00]Let's make the world's stupidest stand and truly mean it
[03:26.18]Let's hit the limit of laws over lovers' arms - no let's exceed it