The Hilariou

By Scott Klopfenstein (2010)
On album Welcome to New York / The Hilarious (2019), First Step (2010)

Welcome to New York / The Hilarious
as i now undergo a euphoric transition
i manage to muster a morsless momentum
with magic utensils that dissect disasters
that once had defined my defective persona
now sit in a box that sits in the car
that sits where i stopped it waiting for a train

it's all on the tracks with no one there to step on the gas
you'll sit and watch from 200 yards away
someday we'll look back, label this the hilarious past
'cause in a blink and a flash there'll be broken glass and plastic parts
flame smoke and shooting sparks
soaring through, up into
the sun lit blue, a fireworks display

zoom

so it seems that the scheme has been fought through, i sought to
deliver deliberate, destructive departure
of things i don't need to succeed in the future
a spiritual surgeon of scalpel and suture
removing the tumor that spread like a rumor
all will be better, soon as there's a train

along with
the insults, the elbows, and ashes from fires
that swept through the dreams that i had as a youngster
the put off, the pushed down, the pissed off, the peeled back
all stacked nice and neat now useless bric-a-brac
sits in the box that sits in the car
that sits where i stopped it waiting for the train

it's all on the tracks with no one there to step on the gas
you'll sit and watch from 200 yards away
someday we'll look back, label this the hilarious past
'cause some dreams must be smashed
to shape how a person feels
rebuild an old ideal
totally and thoroughly stop being me
and embrace change

perhaps i fucked up the most comical component of all?
that will turn this calamity to a monumentive beat
everyone wants to go out with a bang

so with the slam of the doors from ceiling to floors
just one item more, space that's reserved for me

oh come take me home, ooh
someone, please take me home, ooh
come, come take me home, ooh
here we go
please take me home
home

come, come take me home
i'm ready to go
please take me home, ooh
will someone take me home
i'm ready to go
please take me home
i'll go with someone

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