Houdini's still stuck, in that doctor old book The one place he can ever escape And your voice on the phone Your voice is one of those paintings where everything loses its shape And the girl across the street, she is light on her feet She is sunlight bouncing off chrome And me I'm just sad sad sad sad and I'm far away from home Once I was standing on a Dublin street corner I heard a fiddler pierce the veil of illusion And once I got plastered at my best friend's Barmistfa Once I lived in total confusion And once I was eleven, once I was just atoms And once I was a hilltop in Rome But now I'm just sad sad sad sad and I'm far away from home Singing La dee dee dee dee dee dee de dee dee de dee dee Do you know a kiss is just a flower that a bee could return from And do his little dance at the hive And maybe I should mention, that as I write this song down, I'm happy as fuck with life Because the seashore cries out from painter to painted And the winds whips the water into foam Because I'm so sad sad sad sad and I'm far away from home Yes I'm sad sad sad sad and I'm far away from home La dee dee dee dee dee dee de dee dee de dee dee