Young couple is kicking air as
Their burning balloon
Takes the pair up and up and up
and up and up and up and up
On an awful windy day
And the young agricultural
manufacturer's assistant
Slowly raises his sleeping eyes
He opens them wide, wide, wide, wide, wide
As he stares up at the sky, sky,
sky, sky, sky
And the couple cries at
ears that could not hear
"We are up here and we are so very
afraid of heights"
That morning the bride said
"I think it's very clear
With my premonitions here
We were meant for a ride
In that big hot air balloon tonight"
And now she's crying
"Oh, darling, darling, dear
I'm so sorry to approach you here
You seem terrible afeared
We won't get to see
the morning sky
I can't help but wonder why
I'm not afraid to die"
And the water's all around
them, yeah
The water's all around them now
Townsfolk could try to help but how
Now that the ground is miles from them
Bound for the ocean
Bound to let go sometime
And their arms are getting tired,
yeah
Their bones are flayed with fire
From the flaying of their wires
She looks into his eyes, eyes,
eyes, eyes, eyes
Says, "At least we know we tried,
tried, tried, tried, tried"
And the couple's sad for years that up
'til here they both had dreams
And so they swept their plans into the sea
She said, "We could be
a pair of happy fish"
She said, "I'll build a house
in a sunken ship"
Yeah, we could be a pair
of happy fish
We'll build a house in a sunken ship
Now they're a pair of happy fish
They live inside a sunken ship
Yeah, they're a pair of happy fish
They live inside a sunken ship
When you let go at the same time
With the flowers all falling down
Let the angels and the flowers
floating around
Stand up and make themselves
known now
And letting the lovers drown