Papersnow

Pink confetti, shotgun wedding
Rocket secrets someone's shredding nineteenth floor
Laundry ticket that exploded
Joust with Quaker pamphlet goaded into war

Ankle deep we heroes amble, ankle deep we wade
Ankle deep through someone else's ticker tape parade

Softly, softly, softly
Falls papersnow
Softly, softly, softly
All of our works blow away

Petals fell on Petaluma
Till-receipt from Montezuma's Burger Hut
Every day a billion dollars
Fall as black and white blue-collars plough their rut

Softly, softly, softly
Falls papersnow
Softly, softly, softly
All of our works blow away

Ankle deep we heroes amble, ankle deep we wade
Ankle deep through someone else's ticker tape parade

Jets folded from Wall Street Journal
Shoot down cartons care of Colonel's Chicken Ranch
Kleenex where the guy's been cryin'
Goodbye note from girl who's flyin' to new branch

Softly, softly, softly
Falls papersnow
Softly, softly, softly
All of our works blow away

Letters that I'd meant to send you
To torpedo and up-end you sheet by sheet
Tore up all the beg and bitter
Add them to the drift of litter on your street

Softly, softly, softly
Falls papersnow
Softly, softly, softly
All of our works blow away

Ankle deep we heroes amble, ankle deep we wade
Ankle deep through someone else's ticker tape parade