There is always someplace safer than the playground   So let's walk to our private beach at night   We could always roll these drums down the sand dunes   Into the surf and continue to think that they're safe   Sealed up tight, up tight      I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong   Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer      Bobbing up and down in the waves with the moonbeams   They shine like turtles' backs in bleach and I   I hope that they'll be sinking soon under the seaweed   'Cause inside the atoms are moving and helping the fish   Grow extra eyes      I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong   Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer      I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong   Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer   To heat my house a little longer      Now that all the poison's taken off our red hands   It's percolating in the deep blue dump   We'll be counting pay checks with all the zeros   Mother of nature has gone to the doc for a test   She's found a lump      I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong   Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer      I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong   Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer      We'll move on to planets where we don't belong   Family tree is burning, the rocket's waiting on the lawn   The rocket's waiting on the lawn