They Might Be Giants - Erase lyrics

You and I will be together
When we shed our memory
I won't wear an orange sweater when
I get it off of me
When it's as it someday is it
Always will have been the case
When your ever-searching finger finds
The button marked "Erase"
Finger find the button marked "Erase"
Like a deep-sea diver
Falling into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk
Then you return with the next
And the first one's gone
Everyone gets on the bus out of town
And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked "Erase"
When darlings must be murdered
When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

Think of this as solving problems
That should never have occurred
Please don't call it strangulation
That is such an ugly word
Press Erase, ignore the shrill alarms
See the way the deep-sea diver
Falls into the mermaid's arms

Put one box on the sidewalk
Then you return with the next
And the first one's gone
Everyone gets on the bus out of town
And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked "Erase"
When darlings must be murdered
When your heartbreak overrides the very
Thing you can not face
The skeletons that won't stay down
The mercy kill that can't be drowned

Put, box, sidewalk
Then, return, next, first one gone
Everyone, on, bus, out
Lights, out, one by one
Finger find the button marked erase
Like a deep sea diver falling
Into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk
Then you return with the next
And the first one's gone
Everyone gets on the bus out of town
And the lights start going out one by one