Children 18:3

Sing, sing,
Oh, so sucker
For the sugar substitute
And artificial flavoring

Small wonder I felt so safe inside
Nothing more than a smokescreen and masquerade

But outside the car bomb's ticking
Inside a car bomb's ticking

The words I wrote are a broken chain
Holding me from the criminally insane
But it's gone and there's no stopping
All my balloons are popping

Oh oh, there's no stopping, oh oh
Oh oh, there's no stopping, no oh

But the tree was not yet down
As she lifted the flag from the bloody ground, whispering,
"Gallons of gas and a makeshift cast,
And I'm still no further from nowhere fast."

Listen!
Downstairs the doorbell's ringing
We've been waiting
I've been waiting for

The words I wrote are a broken chain
Holding me from the criminally insane
But it's gone and there's no stopping
All my balloons are popping

Oh oh, there's no stopping, oh oh
Oh oh, there's no stopping, no oh

The words I wrote are a broken chain
Keeping me from the criminally insane
But it's gone and there's no stopping

The words I wrote and the songs I sang
Kept this ship from sinking to its grave
But it's gone and there's no stopping
All my balloons are popping