Richard Shindell - Balloon Man lyrics

I'm standing outside on the balcony balloon man is pa**ing below making his way to the park by the church he goes where the little ones go balloon man's a little bit ragged his gla**es are slightly askew one lens is cracked and shoes never match he might have a screw loose or two and you're so far away on the other side of the world I thought you might like to know that balloon man lives in it too his rig is a marvel of equipoise Leonardo might've designed bamboo for the wide horizontal pine for the vertical rise he's wearing in a flag-bearers harness he's holding the whole thing aloft balloons all arrayed, he's a one man parade if he ran he'd surely take off and you're so far away on the other side of the world I just thought you should know that balloon man lives in it too but it's cold up here on the balcony and it's time that I went back inside balloon man waits for the light at the corner I'll watch til he goes out of sight but there's a wind that whips round the corner and he's having a hell of a time he staggers and it looks like he might just go over but balloon man he puts up a fight and you're so far away on the other side of the world I just thought you should know that balloon man lives in it too