Choke Parade

[Verse I] Barely noticed puberty as hair grew subtly onto my virgin flesh Permanently burning away at my baby fat chest "Ceschi the stretch marks from when you were 16 are still there to tell you that you're going nowhere" Fast at least No masterpiece will last a week While giants and dragons jump onto the canvas sheet How you gonna prove you're not another sucker with a dream Living under your Grandpa's roof in a room with your brother All of us want to be someone better Until the moment when the ominous comes And jumps stomps on our festival It's a fucking rainy day Plain and gray In Connecticut waiting for a saving grace To take us away And it's just [Hook] One quick moment for the parade to arrive In just one moment all the floats will choke the sky One quick moment for the parade to arrive In just one moment all the floats will choke the sky [Verse II] Helium filled monstrosities wave in the wind above a cheering crowd That's tearing down our city Simply with the blaring sound Of "Oohs" and "Ahhs" And huge applause As people scurry to catch a glimpse of balloons in fog Everybody in LA was looking for a lucky break But all I really wanted was to get out of that fucking place I never wanted to be that big blimp in a parade That just sits in deep haze Waiting for the day that it deflates [Hook] [Verse III] Then we'll chuckle in sync Like after Snarf jokes on Thundercats episodes We'll reminisce about bullshit we walked through on this wretched road It was a mess, I know Tough to pass the test of growth But we never let those foes Question our endless sense of hope This is a song for all my friends trying to live off music A song for my people who are told every day that they'll never do it Even though we'll all wind up in space under graves At least we kept our legs strong moving along the whole way [Hook]