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Polka Dot Balloon

from Eight Tracks by Button Willow Locomotive

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I looked past that picture show
Tryin’a hear that phonograph
Couldn’t tell a word they spoke
I just listened to the sound track
On the way out

I was just a suburb kid
Tryin’a get my bearings straight
Polka dot balloon in hand
Watched the moon wane with that cameo
Heard the radio

August hid in the airwaves
Singin’ her storm-cloud songs
She’s wonderin’ how to turn
That midnight water blue

There’s that handsome engine sound
Rolling softly through the backwoods
I saw that whippoorwill last night
He’s been resting on the streetlight
Despite

All these tin can planes race by
Over Chinese garden gates
A discordant coupled view
It’s alright it’s just a toothache
It dissipates

The ice cream man’s been closing shop
Those nursery tunes don’t suit the day
But that vinyl cartridge heeds the tracks
That freight, she’s heart bound

I looked past that picture show
Tryin’a hear that phonograph
Couldn’t tell a word they spoke
I just listened to the sound track
On the way out

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from Eight Tracks, released July 4, 2011

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