Be careful what you ask for
When you’re dreaming in the night time
Cause you don’t know when you wake up
If your askings will be there
If the colors start to fracture
As you turn to look away
Consider that the colors tell
Each other just what to say
In the landscape in your left eye
Lush greens flower with a whisper
That can be heard above lower branches
On this side of the smaller river
Your right eye flashes black and white
Back and forth, and when light hits
Animals stand, then jump, then twist
Away to the horizon and darkness
BangBangBang–a cracking noise behind
Three times and when you turn firecracker
Paper is floating to the grass and
Clowns smile, or at least their paint does
Up the river comes a huge brown canoe
Pairs of men seated from front to back
Straining muscles to pull along rafts
Strung behind it, covered in gold bars
The paddlers chant in a wild mixture,
French, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi,
Softer and louder, softer and louder
Picking up the pace of the boat
BangBangBang–you whirl around again, don’t you?
No firecracker paper, no gun, no smoke
The light flashes again but what you
See is only two empty suits standing
The canoe comes to shore fifty yards
From where you stand and the rafts crash
In behind them and the bricks spill
Onto the grass and the men scream
The suits race to grab at the bricks,
The paddlers wave their hands wildly in the air
You scream “Stop no Stop no Stop no”
The bricks explode into firecracker paper
Be careful what you ask for
When you’re dreaming in the night time
Cause you don’t know when you wake up
If your askings will be there
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