Lunacy

© 2001 Jesse Slokum



When there's no real reason for your grief
And you're wondering what's cooking
Acting like a superstitious thief
Getting ready to crack your nut looking
Out the window for a star to fall
Just a glance makes you glad you found it
So full, so white, and above it all
It even has a ring around it
Looking like the eye of a raccoon
Well, I guess you could say it was the moon!
Why don't you say it was the moon!!

You can think you've just got what you sought
With you eyes full of stars you're seeking
When somebody that you really thought
Could be the one suddenly stops being
Friendly, and completely drops their tact
Calling you a hair trigger on a gun
Then walks away and says that you act
Like you've been roasted by the sun
Treating you like a big buffoon
Once again, you could say it was the moon!
Why don't you say it was the moon!!

Come on and dance with me
We'll stare that thing in the face
'Til we're as crazy as a loon
Come, take a chance, you'll see
It ain't no crashing disgrace
Like mad dogs, and Englishmen at noon

When even your days are filled with lust
Just like Count Dracula in the crypt
And the only confidante you trust
Offers you a handwritten manuscript
By the ultimate guru-vy goon
Trying to make a profit off it
But it looks like some meaningless rune
Anf your walls talk to you like some prophet
Who reveals that the end is coming soon
Why don't you simply say it was the moon?
Why don't we blame it on the moon?

You don't have to make sense all the time
Tell me something crazy that you heard
I will do my best to make it rhyme
With another thing equally absurd
Like going surfing on a sand dune
It's so easy to have some fun
Let's play spoons or croon a tune in June
Would you really like to be someone
Whose life has become a sad cartoon?
You could simply say it must be the moon!
Let's go ahead and blame it on the moon!!

Come on and dance with me
We'll stare that thing in the face
'Til we're as crazy as a loon
Come, take a chance, you'll see
It ain't no crashing disgrace
Like mad dogs, and Englishmen at noon




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