Blue Balloon - The Hourglass Song

I have a blue balloon, a happy tune

Love enough to last me all through the afternoon

I have the New York Times, 14 dimes

And explanations of the most profound nursery rhymes

Before the rivers run dry

Before the last sad goodbye

Let's be kind to one another

We can try

So don't just throw your love about

It's not too late to find out

Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass

The carnival is here, the clowns appear

Plastic painted people hold each other near

Hopes are always high, they echo off the sky

And when it's over, there's just a lonely sound of goodbye

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Too late to hide it now, it's all around us now

Oh, how I want you girl to lie beside me now

While there still is time, and all my poems still rhyme

Let me love you now, we can drink a good, good wine

Before the rivers run dry, before the last sad goodbye

Let us be kind to one another, we can try

So don't just throw your love about

You and me, hey, let's find out

Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass