MY JOKE IS LOST
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One of the few tracks on FUN to really live up to the album title, an inspired improvisation from Nick over music that sounds it belongs in a haunted carnival. Released as a single but went nowhere, no surprise given its 10:41 running time.
Here she comes again
The heat and the darkness
The one that wounds me
I had to break the ice
Started with a joke
Involved paint, basketballs
And classroom ethics
She just stared at me
With that blank look
I've been defeated
She moves on to the next suitor
Now my joke floats up
To the top of the room
It drifts out the window
It floats to the stratosphere
Blows up in an orgy of glorious light
My joke is dead, man
My joke is lost forever