Okkervil River - Plus Ones lyrics

No one wants to hear about your 97th tear
So dry your eyes or let it go uncried
My dear
I am all out of love to mouth into your ear
And not above letting a love song disappear
Before it's written

And no one wants a tune
About the 100th luftballoon
That was seen shooting from the
Window of your room
To be a spot against the sky's colossal gloom
And land, deflated
In some neighbor state that's strewn
With 99 others

8 Chinese brothers
Well, there's a reason why the
Last is smiling wide
And sitting higher than the others
Swinging his arms

You would probably die before you
Shot up 9 miles high
Your eyes dilated as light
Plays upon the sight
Of TVC16 as it sings you goodnight
Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45
I hope you're feeling better

The 51st way to leave your lover
Admittedly, doesn't seem to be
As gentle or as clean as all the others
Leaving it's scars
All in the after-hours of some Greenpoint bar

I told you I can't listen, baby
About the 4th time you were a lady
And how your forthrightness betrayed
A secret shyness
Stripped away by days of being
Hailed as "Your Highness"
And what's new, pussycat
Is that you were once a lioness
They cut your claws out

Kitten, not everyone's keen on
Lighting candle 17
The party's done the cake's all
Gone the plates are clean
The chauffeur's leering from
The cheerless mezzanine
And, in just one year
The straight world can pay to see
What they have been missing

You were caught kissing 8 Chinese brothers
But there's a reason why the last is smiling
Wide and sitting higher than the others
Stinking with charm

And he says, "Lets get lost
Let them send out alarms" he says
"Let's get crossed out and come to harm"
"Lets make the world's stupidest stand
And truly mean it
Let's hit the limit of loss over lover's arms
No, let's exceed it"