I read your note before you had a chance to write it   Don’t worry what it said you sounded like a poet   And I was so impressed by your extensive vocabulary    Words you put in every paragraph   And I’ll admit you said some things you didn’t mean to   But how could you have known when the words ran into you   So total line and try to find the reasons why you   So happy illusions they wear their mascots made of   A mix of myth and story thrown out of a paper cup   They’re just excuses laced by parents who get their kids   To bed before the clock touches his 11   And everyone does just what they ought to   And no one asks because their much polite not to   So total line and try to find the reasons why you won’t   Mary I thought you’d like to know, the boy you met after the show was really name was Joe   And Reno wants a gig that’s right around the corner   And we’ll go because we know just what to order   So total line and try to find the reasons why you don’t   Tommy I thought you’d like to know, the girl you met after the show was really name was