Everything That Is Difficult Will Come to an End - Flotation Toy Warning

I don’t have much time, none of us really do

So I’m fucked if I’ll be spending it with you

You’re making history my friend, that said

Your histrionics drive me round the bend

You have to take what the slipstream sends

When your salad days have reached an end

You’re changing my mind

Come take me out where the wild things grow

And teach me all that I ought to know

You’re changing my mind

Come fish me out of the idiot soup

And all the fun of your other loops

You’re changing my mind

I wrote this letter to myself

Well you know me, I like to help

It justifies the harm we do

Wrapped up in pretty songs for you

I’m sorry that I woke you up

But you’re trussed up here like Lilliput

You know I had to join a queue

Just to dry these jokes on you

I kept you how I saw you last

And you’re smiling in that photograph

I know we buried «ought to do»

But mother has more games for you

The open door was just a test

I’m glad you failed it like the best

What passes for a view round here

Has a curious taste of understeer

Come fish me out of the idiot soup

And all the fun of your other loops

You’re changing my mind

Yes, I could have called you more

Well, okay I never called at all

These parts of me so sharp and curved

Have ways I cannot shape to words

You shelter in their soft skin glow

Drink in its warmth, then let it go

The mine you need just isn’t here

You sat and watched him disappear

At times I would have bombed the past

My cartoon worlds, they always cast

You as punch-drunk, me as slow

Both patsy to the undertow

Oh let him go, he won’t get far

He dribbles words, I drive the car

It gets us where we need to be

With disappointing frequency

Are we still running, is this thing on?

He’ll catch it when you’re sure the moment’s gone

When you think we’re only chasing unicorns

He’ll have it in the walk between two rooms

Oh let him go, he won’t get far

He dribbles words, I drive the car

We drag him where he needs to be

With disappointing frequency