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A. Partridge/The Heads

Pink confetti, shotgun wedding

Rocket secrets someone's shredding

Nineteenth floor.

Laundry ticket that exploded

Joust with Quaker pamphlet goaded

Into war.

Ankle deep we heroes amble

Ankel deep we wade

Ankel deep through someone else's

Ticker tape parade

Softly, softly, softly

Falls papersnow

Softly, softly, softly

All of our works blow away

Petals fell on Petaluma

Till-receipt from Montezuma's

Burger Hut.

Every day a billion dollars

Fall as black and white blue-collars

Plough their rut.

Softly, softly, softly

Falls papersnow

Softly, softly, softly

All of our works blow away

Ankle deep we heroes amble

Ankel deep we wade

Ankel deep through someone else's

Ticker tape parade

Jets folded from Wall Street Journal

Shoot down cartons care of Colonel's

Chicken Ranch

Kleenex where the guy's been cryin'

Goodbye note from girl who's flyin'

To new branch

Softly, softly, softly

Falls papersnow

Softly, softly, softly

All of our works blow away

Letters that I'd meant to send you

To torpedo and up-end you

Sheet by sheet

Tore up all the beg and bitter

Add them to the drift of litter

On your street

Softly, softly, softly

Falls papersnow

Softly, softly, softly

All of our works blow away

Ankle deep we heroes amble

Ankel deep we wade

Ankel deep through someone else's

Ticker tape parade