Erase - They Might Be Giants

You and I will be together when we shed our memory

I won’t wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me

When it’s as it someday is it always will have been the case

When your ever-searching finger finds the button marked «Erase»

Finger find the button marked «Erase»

Like a deep-sea diver falling into a mermaid’s embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next and the first one’s gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked «Erase»

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

Think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred

Please don’t call it strangulation

That is such an ugly word

Press Erase, ignore the shrill alarms

See the way the deep-sea diver falls into the mermaid’s arms

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next and the first one’s gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one

Button marked «Erase»

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overrides the very

Thing you can not face

The skeletons that won’t stay down

The mercy kill that can’t be drowned

Put, box, sidewalk

Then, return, next, first one gone

Everyone, on, bus, out

Lights, out, one by one

Finger find the button marked erase

Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid’s embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next and the first one’s gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one