Hurrah

[Verse 1]
I looked at the sea
Where the waves were going
I looked at the sky
And it was all bright

[Chorus]
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Hurrah!

[Verse 2]
I looked at the light
I said, "Girl, you're glowing!"
I looked at the night
And it was all right

[Chorus]
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 3]
Cold: Along where the snow keeps blowing
(Seventeen years)
Warm: Inside the white of a fire
(Seventeen years)
Higher up: On the fine skyscraper
(Seventeen years)
Low down: Where your dad goes to "retire"
(Sevеnteen years)

[Chorus]
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
(Ah, can you stop it?)

[Cheering Sample]

[Bridge]
And I dig the jitters
Thе skittering
A shivering populace
That only paid to hear their most secret wish betrayed and then to quick-fade when shit gets ponderous
They want fraudulent false confidence
Not some ballpoint-bursting laundry list
Yeah, I took a rock to the head
I was stranded in the wind
That river was buried, or maybe, who knows? I felt the hit, and the arc of bright blood froze there
There
In midair
In that moment in my mind
I dreamt a forty-foot crocodile devoured my email address
I dreamt no one knew my middle name
I dreamt a reanimated divorcee shoved her whole hand down my throat to place a small, delicate leaf in my left lung
So we were looking at Lovestreams
Andy walked backwards through a thicket of swords
Liz decided she couldn't go a day without Adderall, it became unbearable
Gary broke a speed-walking record without anybody noticing
He was moving
But he was moving
He was moving
It was moving back then
When I packed myself in a large cardboard box and sat quiet by the earth's hot screaming heart and stayed there four hundred years, and when I got out, it was 1986 again
And your dog was still alive
And your father was still alive
And your favorite singer was still alive
And your parents were still in love
And this was doing fine
And that cost just a dime, and I was ten